"Curry said that he thought the department would function better if it had a Chief who worked at least part-time. (Curry is an on-call volunteer who receives an $11k/yr stipend for serving as Chief)."
If I'm not mistaken, in March 2023, the BOS terminated the Fire Chief, sparked by an vigilante Fire Department group. The Fire Chief at that time was essentially available 24/7/365 for the same stipend $11k/yr and he did that for 17 years. Now the Fire Chief that replaced him cannot do the job!
At what point in time will the BOS realize they made a HUGE mistake in terminating the Fire Chief. At what point in time will they release the non-public meeting minutes of the night the vigilante group secretly entered the Town Office so the rest of us know of the injustices created by a Fire Chief that did his job effectively for 17 years!!!
We all know the BoS had no idea what they were doing when they destroyed NFRD. They weren’t aware of the existing bylaws when they were busy scheming to install the Building Inspector as Fire Chief (direct violation of the bylaws) so they had the town attorney modify the bylaws in the most cowardly way possible in a pathetic attempt to cover their tracks. More evidence of their severe ineptitude was on full display when they attempted to draft a poorly written warrant article (soundly defeated by the good citizens of Nottingham) giving them authority to hire a full time Fire Chief. No regard for the taxpayers, no regard for NFRD, a complete lack of honesty and integrity.
Epping auctions their used cruisers if not used for another town department vehicle. I don’t think we got less than 6,000 per vehicle at au
Interesting!
Fire Department:
"Curry said that he thought the department would function better if it had a Chief who worked at least part-time. (Curry is an on-call volunteer who receives an $11k/yr stipend for serving as Chief)."
If I'm not mistaken, in March 2023, the BOS terminated the Fire Chief, sparked by an vigilante Fire Department group. The Fire Chief at that time was essentially available 24/7/365 for the same stipend $11k/yr and he did that for 17 years. Now the Fire Chief that replaced him cannot do the job!
At what point in time will the BOS realize they made a HUGE mistake in terminating the Fire Chief. At what point in time will they release the non-public meeting minutes of the night the vigilante group secretly entered the Town Office so the rest of us know of the injustices created by a Fire Chief that did his job effectively for 17 years!!!
My recollection is that there's an RSA that says sealed non-public minutes must be made public after 10 years.
Too little too late!
We all know the BoS had no idea what they were doing when they destroyed NFRD. They weren’t aware of the existing bylaws when they were busy scheming to install the Building Inspector as Fire Chief (direct violation of the bylaws) so they had the town attorney modify the bylaws in the most cowardly way possible in a pathetic attempt to cover their tracks. More evidence of their severe ineptitude was on full display when they attempted to draft a poorly written warrant article (soundly defeated by the good citizens of Nottingham) giving them authority to hire a full time Fire Chief. No regard for the taxpayers, no regard for NFRD, a complete lack of honesty and integrity.