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While the town continues to discuss whether to provide fire and rescue services from five or six stations, it wants to hire more firefighters to keep the current stations open and operational, even after the Sandwich Road station is built. Falmouth Select Board, at its meeting on Monday, May 10, directed Town Manager Julian M. Suso to develop a staffing model and bring it back to the board that would keep all stations open, including the West Falmouth location. Since last July, the station has only been staffed when firefighters volunteer for overtime to man it. âI suggest starting now to build that financial package to hire more to keep West Falmouth open even after the new Sandwich Road station is open,â select board member Douglas H. Jones said. ....
Norwich Three residents pleaded with the City Council on Thursday to cut the tax rate as taxpayers continue to try to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic during the city s first public hearing of the year. City Manager John Salomone has proposed a $138.6 million combined city and school budget, which calls for a 1.57% citywide tax increase, using federal grants to offset part of the 4.39% spending increase. Salomone’s budget includes an $86.3 million bottom line school budget, a $2.1 million, or 2.5%, increase over this year; a $48.7 million general government budget, with a $2.7 million increase over this year; and $3.6 million for capital improvements. The school budget proposal is $1.2 million short of the $87.5 million budget approved by the Board of Education in March. ....
Norwich City Manager John Salomone has proposed a combined city and school budget totaling $138.6 million with a 4.39% spending increase that would require a 1.5% citywide tax increase. Salomone’s proposed 2021-22 budget, presented to the City Council Monday, includes an $86.3 million school budget which calls for a $2.1 million or 2.5% increase. That is less than the 3.95% increase requested by school officials but more than the city manager’s usual 2% increase for the schools. The general government budget also contains funding for a fire services director recommended in a recently released fire services study. The general government budget of $48.7 million calls for a $2.7 million or 5.95% increase. ....
Norwich The City Council Public Safety Committee started work on a plan to upgrade antiquated fire radio and dispatch system, a top priority in the new fire services study, and voiced support for a controversial idea to create a fire commissioner to oversee all fire departments. The committee on Wednesday discussed the 194-page report by McGrath Consulting Group, released Feb. 16, for the first time Wednesday and started the process to obtain cost estimates for fire radios and upgrades to the dispatch system. Committee Chairman Alderman Joseph DeLucia said much of the report will be reviewed methodically rather than as “a snowball running downhill,” noting the fire communications system is an immediate need. ....