FinCom Recommends Funding One of Two Public Safety Personnel Requests
When the Wayland Finance Committee presents its recommended Fiscal Year 2014 budget tonight, it will include funding for one of the two new personnel requested by Wayland's public safety chiefs.
The Wayland Finance Committee spent a couple of meetings weighing the decision, but ultimately decided that the Wayland Fire Department could wait to hire a new firefighter. "We thought the chief made a very compelling argument for it," FinCom Chair Bill Steinberg told Patch. "We don't have a problem with it in general; we were just trying to limit new items overall this year." Steinberg went on to explain that he got the sense the FinCom would be more apt to recommend the position if Fire Chief Vinnie Smith presents it again next budget cycle. Smith told Patch he was disappointed by the FinCom decision to not approve his $69,000 request, but would make do. “We’ve gone with this number of people for 42 years, another year won’t make a huge…
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Cynthia Hill
8:50 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Both, or none........each deserving in their own right! What Chief Loomer thought, or did really doesn't make any difference ~ there's a new Fire Chief in town. more ›