AGENDA

PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE

MARCH 10, 2003

FIRE DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS

141 GROVE STREET

TO CONVENE AT CONCLUSION OF VIEW

View began @ 5:34 p.m.

View completed @ 6:40 p.m.

 

VIEW – 5:30 P.M. to begin at South Division Fire Station @ 180 Southbridge St., continue to Brown Square Fire Station @ 676 Franklin St., and end at Fire Department Headquarters where the committee meeting will convene.

Convened @ 6:40 p.m.

Adjourned @ 7:13 p.m.

 

Present were:       Chairperson Councillor Michael C. Perotto

                             Councillor Joseph M. Petty

                             Councillor Barbara G. Haller

                             Fire Chief Gerard A. Dio

                             Local 1009 President Frank Raffa

                             Local 1009 Vice President Donald Courtney

                             City Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk

 

FIRE DEPARTMENT

 

Communications of the City Manager

 

1.                 Relative to Recommendation Regarding Relocation of Central Street Fire Apparatus.

#12A CM  September 3, 2002

In Committee January 15, 2003 – held

Recommend Hold

 

2.                 Relative to the feasibility of placing a new fire station on Franklin Street adjacent to the site of the Worcester Cold Storage and Warehouse tragedy.

#13A CM  January 28, 2003

Recommend Hold

 

 

Chairman’s Orders

 

1.     Request the Administration report to the City Council the results of any engineering study and associated cost estimates of work to be performed at the South Division, Brown Square and the Grove Street Fire Headquarters facilities so as to accommodate additional fire personnel and equipment, on both a short-term and long-term basis.

 

2.     Request the Administration report to the City Council their projected increase in the number of runs from South Division, Brown Square and Grove Street Fire Headquarters in the event the Central Street facility is closed.

 

3.     Request the Administration immediately repair the stairway at the Grove Street Fire Headquarters in the interest of the personal safety of fire personnel.

 

4.     Request the Administration report to the City Council any improvements that have been made to the South Division, Brown Square and Grove Street Fire Headquarters facilities since 1995.

 

5.     Request the Administration provide the City Council with a listing of any and all properties owned by any entity of the City of Worcester in the vicinity of Franklin Street between Grafton Street and Brown Square.