Hartford Common Council met Tuesday night, October 27 at Hartford City Hall. 

In a unanimous consent agenda item, which involves the suspension of the downtown parking regulations for the upcoming holidays. The time period includes Friday, November 6 of this year through Friday, January 1 of next year.

A second reading was addressed regarding an Ordinance repealing and recreating Chapter 6 of the City of Hartford Municipal Code entitled Fire Department. Hartford Fire and Rescue Chief Tony Burgard says they are trying to get it up to date.

"We are trying to update everything in Chapter six, which is everything about fire and rescue in the Municipal Code. Trying to bring this up to date."                                          

Chapter 6 of the Municipal Code is for the Hartford Fire and Rescue Department. The current version is outdated and does not reference the current version of the fire prevention code.

The only economic impact includes the fees associated with Chapter 42 of the City of Hartford’s Municipal Code, for violations or costs. The update means the Hartford Fire and Rescue Department will be ready to help businesses with new and changing workplace items like solar power systems, battery storage systems and changing fire sprinkler codes.

There was discussion and consideration to accept the lowest bid from IC Construction with both alternates for the building project of Fire Station #2, a project designed to improve public safety and EMS capacity. Hartford’s Fire Station #2, which will be located on the corner of Highway K and Schauer Drive, in Hartford. It will be a single story with 8,000 square feet. It will be a metal building, which will include a decontamination space which is designed to clean toxic items off their gear before entering the living quarters.

The construction of Fire Station #2 is a City of Hartford's CIP project which was modified by Council from $4.9 million to $3,944,000. The funds include: $3 million in already borrowed City of Hartford funds for 2027, $144,000 in a grant from Washington County, and $800,000 in a grant from the state.

The bid is $183,700 less than the revised approved budget.

Photo by WTKM's Tom Jeffery.