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Jefferson County adopts burn ordinance requiring notice to dispatch
Summary
After a public hearing with no public comment, supervisors voted to waive additional hearings and adopt a burn ordinance that requires callers to notify the Jefferson County dispatch center by calling the nonemergency number with required burn information.
The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors opened a public hearing on a proposed burn ordinance and received no public testimony. Supervisors and staff discussed operational details including whether callers should notify dispatch or the fire department directly; multiple board members supported requiring notice to dispatch to reduce false emergency runs. Speaker 1 said the ordinance will "provide notice to the Jefferson County dispatch center by calling the nonemergency phone number and providing all of the required burn information."
The board voted to waive the second and third public hearings and approved the ordinance as written. Supervisors directed staff to make the ordinance available on the county website and in the auditor's office, and to include contact procedures for dispatch in public materials.
Next steps: staff will post the ordinance and implement the notification language; departments agreed to include the dispatch nonemergency number for callers.
