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Marietta City Council concluded 2020’s work Wednesday with a special business meeting via teleconference, wrapping up final finance needs and ratifying the next three years of unionized fire protection for the city.
Ordinances 158 and 159 were introduced before a full legislative body, the first a financial exercise used to maintain compliance with state expectations to balance the books at the close of any given year and the second to ratify the next three years of a contract with the International Association of Fire Fighters.
Ordinance 158 backed out funds, called unappropration, to prevent being over appropriated for projects and expenditures that did not take place in 2020 which would flag an issue in annual auditing.
Firefighters recount March call to treat Clark County’s first confirmed COVID-19 patient
Fire District 6 firefighters say it seemed like average dispatch By Jerzy Shedlock, Columbian Breaking News Reporter
Published: January 1, 2021, 6:03am
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2 Photos Firefighter and paramedic Max Olson, left, and firefighter and emergency medical technician Dave Fisher pose in front of a fire truck on Dec. 8 at Clark County Fire District 6 Station 61. They responded to the first reported COVID-19 case in the county. (Joshua Hart/The Columbian) Photo Gallery
When Clark County Fire District 6 firefighters Max Olson and Dave Fisher responded to a call for a sick elderly man in early March, both believed it was nothing more than an average dispatch.
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Mayor cheers police, fire contract agreement
Mayor cheers police, fire contract agreement
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott’s taxpayer-funded PR apparatus announced today a new
contract with police and firefighters that the new head of the Fraternal Order of Police told the City Board last night had been reached.
The release:
On Wednesday, Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. announced, for the first time in the
City’s history, one-year employee agreements accepted by unified negotiation teams for both fire and police employees the International Association of Fire Fighters and Fire Leaders Actively Maintaining Equality (FLAME) for fire fighters and the Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police and Black Police Officers Association (BPOA) for police officers. Both agreements also include minority representation from FLAME and BPOA for all contract discussions during the 2021 agreement period.
jpatterson@mariettatimes.com
Marietta City Council will not have completed allocations for emergency homelessness reprieve by year’s end.
Legislators and other city administrators are looking to other routes for public funds to support a warming center at a local church through the county homeless project, local food banks and vouchers for motel stays to be carried by law enforcement for immediate distribution on cold nights.
In January of this year, a Marietta law enforcement officer was called out to one of the homeless encampments for a wellness check.The police officer was at a loss for available action that cold January afternoon, speaking with the Times and Councilman Geoff Schenkel about not wanting to find a frozen body but also having nowhere to offer those without a home.