It might be a bumpy road for Camas leaders rolling into the city’s 2019-20 biennium budget process. On Monday evening, department heads gathered in front of Camas City Council members and Camas Mayor Scott Higgins at a special work session to discuss their most critical needs going into the short-term future. ... Fire Chief Nick Swinhart leads a team of firefighters, who have approached city leaders for more than four months, saying the city’s staffing levels at the Camas-Washougal Fire Department are outdated and unsafe. Swinhart has said it would take an additional 12 to 15 full-time responders at a cost of about $1.3 million per year in additional salary and benefit costs to meet the fire union’s demands of staffing at least three firefighters on every engine call.