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Norwich Volunteer fire chiefs, members of the five volunteer fire departments and a few resident taxpayers blasted the proposal to create a fire services director position during the City Council Public Safety Committee meeting Wednesday, calling it unnecessary, expensive and “totally ludicrous.”
The three aldermen on the committee, led by 12-year veteran alderman and former police officer William Nash, shot back, rejecting accusations that the proposed fire services director is political and would undermine the volunteer departments. They said city leaders have tried for years to get the volunteers and paid fire department to cooperate to find cost savings, to no avail.
Norwich The City Council late Monday approved a new lease for the Thomas J. Dodd Stadium with the Norwich Sea Unicorns, which will start their new life as a summer wooden-bat collegiate team with their first home game May 31.
The aldermen expressed hesitancy at the turn of events that cost the city its minor league baseball team with a Major League Baseball affiliation but said approving a two-year lease with a third-year option “by mutual agreement” was the best option for the city. They questioned the financial viability of the summer collegiate team status and said the short-term agreement would allow the city to keep options open, including the possibility of selling the city-owned property in the Norwich business park for development.