Rich Civic Times
GARDEN
CITY, Utah. April 16, 2015. The Garden City Fire District board held its
regular monthly meeting. All members
were present. The board approved an
employee policy handbook, announced that 3 of the board members had completed
public meetings training, and heard from Chief Mike Wahlberg on several
matters.
A couple
of hoses had been damaged (by burning) during suppression of some recent fires
and will be replaced. The pump on Brush
Truck 40 was repaired at no cost because it had so few hours on it that the
vendor felt it was fair for the vendor to do the work without charge.
There
were some department requests for new personal firefighting gear but the chief
is waiting to see how a grant proposal turns out before spending internal
money.
There
were 5 fires in the past month, 2 on the Garden City canal, 1 on sage flat, one
on highway 30, and the wind caused transmission pole destruction near Cherimoya.
Jenny
England asked if the department should continue paying for web site maintenance
when there has been very intermittent work on updating that site. Chief Wahlberg will make a recommendation at
the next meeting, hoping to find an internal firefighter with IT interests and
experience to carry out this task.
Chief Wahlberg
indicated that the open but supervised controlled burning at low elevations
would likely be suspended by May.
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