Glenwood City’s Fire Chief asks city to make changes to the false alarm ordinance
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GLENWOOD CITY — The city council pushed through their open meeting agenda Monday evening in just 18 minutes and covered the dozen items on the agenda including a request from Fire Chief Greg Holden to make a change to the City’s False alarm ordinance.
At present a location can have two false alarms per year and not be changed for those calls. Chief Holden would like to have that removed from the ordinance so that there would be no free calls.
Council member Jud Kraft questioned the chief about the number of false calls the fire department had received and he noted that over the years several at the school and two or three a month at Glenhaven. In answering Kraft’s question about the cost of a false alarm the chief noted that it is $350.00 per call.
During the discussion about false alarm costs it was noted that if the fire department is called out, the ambulance is also called and no bill is generated for that call, but firefighters and EMT’s do get paid.
Mayor Kent Kletscher indicated that the false alarm ordinance would be put on next month’s agenda for the entire council to talk the matter over.
The fire chief also reported that the Hudson Fire Department has received a grant to purchase new fire hose and they are offering our local fire department their used hose, which all has been pressure tested, at ten dollars for a 50-foot roll. Holden noted that the cost for new is around $150.00.
The fire department has some two-and-half inch fire hose in service that dates back to the 1960s.
Before the mayor called the council into session, two members of the council, Ben DeGross and Kraft were circulating their nomination papers to city residents who had gathered for the council meeting. The third member of the council that is up for election is Kristen Curvello and she indicated that she would not be seeking a full two-year term. “It’s not what I expected,” she stated. Curvello was appointed to the council last May to serve out an open seat that was vacated by the resignation of Austin Sandow.
In other action the council heard a report from the librarian that over 175 people attended the library’s Christmas on Oak Street on Saturday.
The council heard a report from Curvello about a committee meeting to start planning for improvements at Hinman Park. They also approved a contract with Weber Inspections for 2025 and Ok’ed the city fee schedule for next year, and approved a class “A” liquor and tobacco license for Six Toes LLC, with the mayor indicating that this is the “gas station” with a name change.
