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City presents community-safety update: fire-station builds, Community Connect, wallet card and water emergency plan
Summary
Deputy city manager and department leaders updated commissioners on community-safety initiatives: Station 5 construction and Station 2 hardening, the Community Connect resident portal, a wallet-card and decals program for people with disabilities, fire-inspection digitalization and a water-department emergency response plan; a $1.5M DEP reclaimed-water grant (WS127) was also presented.
City staff delivered a strategic-pillar update on community safety that covered fire-station construction, a new resident portal for first responders, outreach programs for people with disabilities, fire inspection modernization and the utilities’ emergency response planning.
Nicholas Bilbrey, division chief for planning and finance in the fire department, updated the commission on Station 5 (Lake Cartridge) — a roughly $5.6 million investment sized to cover about 5½ square miles and an estimated 9,000 people, with an expected opening about the first of next year — and on…
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