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Fire department urges charter clarifications on succession, discipline and marshal authority
Summary
Fire department leaders told the Charter Review Commission that the town charter should be updated to reflect current practice: prioritize the paid assistant chief in succession, reference collective-bargaining procedures for discipline, and cite state statute for the fire marshal’s authority.
Fire department leaders met with Group 2 of the Charter Review Commission and recommended targeted charter language changes to reflect current staffing and disciplinary practice.
The volunteer assistant fire chief, who identified himself for the record and disclosed 27 years of volunteer service, said the succession clause in C8-4(a) should name the paid (career) assistant chief first as acting chief in a vacancy because the department now has a career assistant chief. "It makes sense...that the paid full time person should take over those duties as the chief in the absence of the chief," he said.
Commission members and department leaders also discussed…
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