City Councilor Eric Spear will ask the City Council on Monday to authorize spending $39,000 for "consultants to come in and do an assessment of the Fire Department."
Spear noted "a similar assessment was done on the Police Department."
"In all these cases, we're trying to provide services but also control spending. Hundreds of people came out for a recent meeting who were really unhappy with their property taxes," Spear said Thursday. "If you talk to anybody in town, they love the services they're getting, but they're struggling under these taxes. We have to make sure we're doing everything we can to control spending."
A mayor's Blue Ribbon Committee on the Fire Department issued a request for proposals in 2014 to conduct a study about fire operations, and the best bid came back at $39,000. However, the council at the time voted down funding for the study.