"The Victor with twelve men at the engine made a run of 470 yards, laid 300 feet of hose, and had a stream of water on the imaginary fire in five minutes. The engine started from the intersection of West Martin and South Salisbury Streets at 7.34 ½ o'clock p.m. At 7.36 ½ the hose reel reached the cistern at the intersection of West Lenoir and South Salisbury streets; at 7.37 [a total of] 300 feet of hose had been laid and the nozzle attached; at 7.38 the engine arrived, and at 7.39 ½ had a stream of water upon the fire. Who can beat that record?"

Notes on the presentation.

• Presentation introduced by Facilities Committee.
• Presentation by Fire Marshall and Facilities and Design Construction staff.
• Station covers no-man's land along the southeastern border of Wake County.
• Area is within the fire tax district, but not within a rated fire district.
• Thus those who pay the fire tax don't receive reduced insurance rates.
• Sites evaluated on Spaceway Court (recommended), Bricksteel Lane, Hein Drive, Sigma Drive, Waterfield Drive, and Raynor Road.
• Analysis of sites included using GIS to model road network distance, and identifying a search ring within 6 road miles.
• Also looked at co-located school site, but that didn't work out.
• Spaceway Court is most cost-effective site, at $130,000 per-acre listing price.
• Good location, 200 feet east of Raynor Road.
• Excellent size, shape, and topography.
• No Neuse River buffers, flood hazard areas, or flood prone soils.
• Zoned I-2.
• Four acres will be needed.
• Conceptual drawing uses an older prototype station style.
• Conceptual drawing used to determine building orientation and acreage needed.
• Facility with house both fire and EMS.
• Building should resemble the design of the Willow Springs fire station, but with three bays (two fire, one EMS).
• Site is inside the town of Garner.
• Discussion followed question of what happens if Garner decides to form a fire department in a few years?
• Would they take over the facility? Would they provide rural service to the no-man's land? Would the county lose fire tax revenue, after having spent $2 million on a new station? etc.
• The Fire Marshal noted that the town and the Garner Fire Department have an agreement regarding Station 3, that if the town ever forms a fire department, the town will buy back the part of Station 3 that they financed. That would be one option.
• The Fire Marshal expressed his opinion that there's a high probability that the town of Garner will get into the fire business in the near future, and that there's a low probability that a town FD would choose not to provide rural service. Among other things, they would lose the $1 million each year received from county contracts for that area.
• Action items for Fire Commission was confirming the choice of Spaceway Court, and direct county staff to move forward with developing an interlocal agreement with the town of Garner to cost-share the facility, and present the joint land ownership and purchase proposal to both the Fire Commission and the Wake County Board of Commissioners.
• Action was approved.

¹Apologizes to future Google searchers, who find this posting while looking for information on JavaServer Pages.
² With regard to reader comments on WRAL and other sites, those perspectives obviously run the gamut, from fellow responders to regular Joes and Janes.

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• Invocation
• Roll of members present
• Approval of Agenda

• Adoption of Minutes for May 8th, 2008, Regular Meeting
• Adoption of Minutes for June 4th, 2008, Special Called Meeting

• Facility Committee
• Apparatus Committee
• Fire Commission Committee Structure

• Chair Report
• Fire/Rescue Services Director Report

Other Business

Public Comments

• 30 minutes maximum time allotted, Maximum 3 minutes per person

• Next Meeting September 18th, 2008.