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Elk Mound board sends false-alarm fee revision to Public Safety Committee after fire chief request
Summary
Fire Chief Colin Fuester requested fines for multiple false alarms be assessed per property owner; the Village Board voted to send a proposed revision to the police/fire false-alarm fee schedule (Ordinance Sec. 1-3-1) to the Public Safety Committee for further review.
Fire Chief Colin Fuester asked the Village Board on Sept. 16 to amend its false-alarm ordinance so that fines for repeated false alarms would attach to a property owner rather than a single building, citing several incidents at the Settlers Ridge apartment complex.
On a motion by Trustee Tim Benjamin, seconded by Trustee Cynthia Abraham, the board voted to send a proposed revision to Ordinance Section 1-3-1 (Fee Schedule for Police/Fire False Alarms) to the Public Safety Committee for further review. The motion carried; no change to the ordinance was adopted at the meeting.
The request came during the citizen forum, where Fuester summarized operational effects of multiple false alarms on emergency response. The proposed revision discussed at the meeting would alter how fines are assessed across multi-unit properties; details of the revision were not read into the record and will be examined by the Public Safety Committee before any ordinance change is brought back to the full board.
Next steps: the Public Safety Committee will review the draft revision and may return a recommendation to the board at a future meeting. The board did not set a timeline for the committee review during the Sept. 16 meeting.
