Councilman Wants Outside Expert On Fire Dept. Budget Cuts
City Councilman Frank DiCicco is calling on Mayor Nutter to hire an independent consultant to study plans to trim the Philadelphia Fire Department's budget by eliminating equipment at some stations.
Councilman Wants Outside Expert On Fire Dept. Budget Cuts
Chris Brennan
City Councilman Frank DiCicco is calling on Mayor Nutter to hire an independent consultant to study plans to trim the Philadelphia Fire Department's budget by eliminating equipment at some stations. DiCicco, in a letter to Nutter on Friday, noted that this is not the first time he's made such a request. He asked then-Mayor Street's administration to hire a consultant in 2004 when Fire Department cuts were being considered.
"I believed then as I do now that it would be irresponsible for me to simply accept the word of any Administration that their plan maintained the health and welfare of my constituents," DiCicco wrote, adding that he knows the city is facing a dire financial crisis. "I do not and will not question the need for serious service reductions."
Read DiCicco's letter here.
You need only look at the map to see just how close the firehouses slated for closure are to other ones. But nonody has explained what the difference between an engine and a ladder is.— dartvader- Yeah, cause we have the money for an independent consultant.— NathanielMerriweather
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