La Crosse Fire Chief Ken Gilliam hopes 2020 will be the year fire station improvements first proposed in 2012 move forward, he said Monday in a meeting to discuss next year’s capital improvement program budget.
The La Crosse Plan Commission began the daunting task of winnowing $36 million in funding requests to the city’s self-imposed limit of $7.5 million in new borrowing at a special meeting Monday, hearing from city staff about various projects in the works.
Among those is a $6 million proposal to move forward on a new fire station on La Crosse’s North Side, which would replace the Gillette Street station, known as Station 4, and $4.5 million for another on the city’s South Side, which would be the fifth station that has been talked about for the past seven years.