In the fourth Pueblo West Metro District board meeting of the year, the board voted unanimously on three important action items that will benefit the community.
Pueblo West Fire Chief Brian Caserta asked the board to repurpose an allocated amount of $90,000 designated for design work for Fire Station 2 to be used in conjunction with the rollover amount of $133,244 for a combined amount of $223,244 for upgrades to the living quarters at Fire Station 1.
Caserta added that small improvements have been made, but none that capture the true intent of what needs to be done at the fire station.
“What we ended up doing was turning a space that was one big open room that was a storage room for fire hose and things like that and converted it into a bedroom living space for the first three fulltime firefighters that we had living at the station for 24 hours at a time,” Caserta said.