No cuts in City Fire Department staffing - Canandaigua
Posted on October 24th, 2008 by admin
Last night, the Canandaigua City Council’s finance committee voted down a proposal to reduce the number of on duty firefighters. Fire Chief Matthew Snyder also presented a plan for reorganizing the city fire department, based upon ideas from a committee comprised of career and volunteer firefighters, as well as city and town officials. The Recommendations were as follows:
- Encourage non-operational support from volunteers who aren’t actively fighting fires.
- Establish volunteer lieutenant position for volunteers with at least five years experience as active interior firefighter.
- Make gear and patches uniform for career and volunteer firefighters.
- Add a part-time volunteer coordinator to act as liaison between volunteers and chief.
- Establish an Explorer Post/Venture Crew to help 14- to 18-year-olds learn about firefighting.
- Put aside $5,000 of $7,000 in city funds given to both Erina and Merrill Hose companies for volunteer equipment and training, to be spent by the chief.
- Start a volunteer duty crew, in which volunteers are assigned shifts at the Fire Station.
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