Vancouver awards $7 million contract for Fire Station 11 construction
City councilors point out gaps in department response times
Published: April 26, 2021, 8:13pm
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The city of Vancouver awarded a $7.13 million contract at Monday’s council meeting, marking the next major step toward construction of the city’s Fire Station 11 facility.
The future Fire Station 11 will be just outside city limits, in a location serviced by the Vancouver Fire Department in partnership with Clark County’s Fire District 5.
Residents in the area currently deal with some of the slowest response times to emergency calls in all of the VFD’s coverage area fewer than half of all calls to the region are answered within 7 minutes and 59 seconds, which is the department’s target.
Vancouver more than doubles cleaning service contract, citing COVID-19
Cost of sanitizing city buildings, vehicles up 155%
Published: April 12, 2021, 9:35pm
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Vancouver more than doubled the dollar amount of its annual contract with the company responsible for cleaning its municipal buildings, a change that city leaders say is linked to more stringent sanitation requirements during COVID-19.
During their regular meeting Monday evening, Vancouver city councilors approved a major increase in the amount of money it pays to Del Sol, Inc., the local business that employs the city’s janitors. Vancouver will now pay approximately $3.83 million per year in cleaning services, compared to the $1.5 million it typically spent pre-pandemic.