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Hamilton City Council hires firefighter recruit, adopts credit-card policy and schedules zoning hearing on home bakeries
Summary
At a regular meeting, the Hamilton City Council approved hiring Taylor Emerson as a firefighter recruit, set his pay and probation conditions, adopted a citywide credit-card policy for department heads, approved routine payments including a CD renewal, and scheduled an April 30 zoning-board hearing to consider allowing home bakeries under conditional use.
The Hamilton City Council at its recent meeting approved hiring Taylor Emerson as a firefighter recruit and adopted a new city credit-card policy while scheduling a zoning-board hearing to consider allowing home bakers to operate under a conditional-use permit.
Interim Fire Chief Matt McCracken recommended Emerson to the council, saying, "Taylor Emerson is his name and I think he is going to be a huge asset to our department and to the city as a whole." Council approved the hire; the recruit must successfully complete firefighter certification and the hire date was stated as April 22, 2026. Council also approved an hourly starting rate of $17.34 for the recruit and discussed a probationary period the staff described as six months, with certification triggering an automatic step for police and fire positions.
Council members moved and approved routine…
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