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Posted by Scott Spielman
at 3:47 PM | Comments
The Plymouth City Commission met in a special session Monday night to get a few answers from Randy Maycock, chief of the Plymouth Community Fire Department.
This is sure to be a hot topic.
Among the questions they had were: why had the fire station near the Lake Pointe subdivision been left unmanned and why had it taken so long for the city commissioners to be informed about it? (It happened a few times between Christmas of 2005 and July 4, 2006).
The answer to the first was staff levels: two firefighters were on vacation, two on medical leave, and two more called in sick.
The answer to the second never came out in the meeting. My guess is they didn’t want the city folks to know.
Another question, and this is more intriguing, is why Maycock brought up concerns about providing mutual aid to public safety departments during a recent Mutual Aid Association meeting. He said that the City of Plymouth would be going to such a model in the next two years.
City officials haven’t said that; they’re looking into ways to save costs.
It sounds to me like people in Plymouth Township are trying to find ways to sweep the mutual aid rug from beneath the feet of city officials, strong-arming them into keeping their current intergovernmental agreements intact.
That’s not very neighborly.
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