The city’s Fire Chief Steve Adgate will be retiring in November.
In recent days, Chief Adgate has informed the City Council’s Finance Committee, who are preparing the cit y’s FY2021 budget of his intentions.
He is retiring from a job that he thoroughly enjoys but was also somewhat predictable as he reaches the “magic 65” years old - a time the state law kicks in for retirement.
Adgate these days still has a full day, a full agenda every day and approaches every task with a high degree of enthusiasm.
“ I turn 65 in November and really have no choice,” he reflected yesterday at his office at the Fire Station Headquarters ( Station #1/Glennon Fire Station) in the South End. “There is a state law you have to retire at that age, you know.”