A task force’s recommendation that Port Washington build a new $5 million fire station on the city’s far west side was presented to the Common Council Tuesday night.
Aldermen offered few comments on the recommendation, which will be taken up by the Finance and License Committee when it meets Tuesday, June 18.
Mayor Marty Becker, who has championed the effort, said it will move forward.
“We will keep this moving along,” he said.
Resident Andrea Jushka, 673 Evergreen Ter., told aldermen that the new facility is important. While the committee has often cited the potential for west-side residents to be cut off from ambulance and fire services if there is a train derailment, she said passing trains also cause potentially life-threatening delays.
She recalled waiting for an ambulance for her child and “praying ‘Please don’t let there be a train going through town, delaying the ambulance I need.’
“No parent should have to go through that,” Jushka said.