We ceremonially broke the ground today at the site for our new Fire Station: Fire Station #4. That's Fire Chief George Esbensen in the white shirt in the center of the photo. Chief Esbensen has worked many hours, days and weeks to achieve this ceremonial day. The new fire station is the completion of our fire station network for our city.
This is station #4. It will serve the southwest quadrant of our city. The southwest quadrant is the final quadrant of our city to develop from rural to urban. We've been working on site identification and acquisition since 2004. The area has been rapidly developed since then. We have been serving this area with our three other fire stations adequately, but this new station will be an improvement to our overall fire and emergency response in the area. We're looking forward to that. I'll bet that our residents in the area will appreciate it too.
We don't do a lot of ceremonial events in city government. But they're important. It's important to stop and take stock of what we've accomplished from time to time. It's an important opportunity for staff and elected officials to take some pride in what we can do when we all work together. The groundbreaking for this new project is one of those occassions. We'll do another event when the station is completed next year.
The contractor moves on to the site on Monday.
