Mayor Joseph M. Butler on Monday night received no support for hiring the same consultant that completed a study on the operations of the city’s fire department three years ago.
City Council members Cody J. Horbacz. Mark C. Walczyk and Ryan Henry-Wilkinson voted against paying $24,000 to Center for Public Safety Management, a Washington, D.C.,-based consultant, to update the study. Councilwoman Lisa A. Ruggiero was absent.
Before the vote, Mayor Butler and Councilman Horbacz got into a heated argument about whether the study could decide once and for all the necessity of a stipulation that 15 firefighters must be on duty at all times.
But Councilman Horbacz demanded to know why CPSM failed to determine the issue when the consultant put together the 2015 study, calling it “incomplete.”