Elizabethtown City Council Work Session Update

The Elizabethtown City Council met for their regularly scheduled work session Monday night. Dr Jillian Carden, Executive Director of Silverleaf Services, provided an update on what the non-profit accomplished In 2022 and what is coming this year. Rita Davis, Director of the City Stormwater Department, also provided updates on several projects around the city. Elizabethtown Fire Chief Mark Malone provided information on bids received to make improvements at the fire training center and what those improvements would mean for training. “So, the fire department has needed a way to set fires and put them out repeatedly without burning a building down, so that we can get good at our job. This training tower will give us the opportunity to do that. It has three separate burn rooms so you can set fires in different areas of the building. So you can give different scenarios to the firefighters then they can learn about basement fires, second floor fires, things like that. It’ll have a standpipe system in it so they can practice hotel fires, where we have to hook a hose inside a stairwell. So if we’re handed those situations where it’s unfamiliar, then we’ll have a chance to practice that.” The next regularly scheduled meeting for the City Council is on March 6 at 4:30 PM.