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The Elizabethtown City Council met for a work session Monday afternoon.
Elizabethtown Fire Chief Mark Malone provided an update on the city’s fire department. Malone said year-to-date the department has responded to about 1,560 calls. He said the department has a new pumper truck and brush fire truck now in service with another pumper truck to be in service soon.
Malone said Station Four on North Mulberry Street should be occupied by the end of January.
“We had a lot of delays this spring because of wet weather, and that’s pushed us back so they asked us for an extension, so we gave them an extension up until January, so the final completion date should be sometime in December,” Malone said. “The final punch will be after that.”
Deputy Fire Chief David Walters discussed the enhanced training opportunities the department is able to offer, and introduced the six members of the recruit class currently in training. Walters said the city’s investment in fire training, including the department’s live fire training facility, is paying off.
“We’ve probably got the most state of the art facility, and I’m not just saying that, because I’ve been all over the state for training in other facilities, other areas, other districts, and for what we have and for what Chief Malone has went through to think of the stuff that we can do in the training in there and develop that in that plan, I think that’s what’s being seen and we’re being asked if we can utilize it more,” Walters said.
Elizabethtown Planning and Development Director Joe Reverman discussed efforts to develop Roadway Improvement Funding Allocations as a viable option for the city. City Planner Aaron Hawkins discussed progress on the Envision Active Elizabethtown Bicycle/Pedestrian Master Plan originally commissioned by Greenspace. He said three projects identified for the plan are currently being completed.
“The goal of this plan is to enhance the connectivity, safety, and livability while promoting economic growth in the healthier community, but the overall point of the master plan was to identify a set of projects to improve both the bike and the pedestrian network in the City of Elizabethtown,” Hawkins said.
The Elizabethtown City Council will next meet November 3.
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