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News Briefs
Streit to sit on fire committee
The city council chose Vice Mayor Nick Streit to sit on a fire services oversight committee that would act as an advisory board for the Saratoga Fire District and Santa Clara County Fire Department when the two departments begin their new coordinating efforts.
Saratoga Fire District commissioners agreed on June 12, to forge a tight partnership with the county department, in order to communicate and respond to fires as if the two departments were one unit.
The council's move comes after Saratoga Fire Chief Ernie Kraule's recent comment that the tentative August 1 start-up date for the agreement might not work. Kraule said that the two districts need time to hash out the details of the agreement and that it will also take at least a month to hook the Saratoga station up to the county communications network. "It's going to be August 1 give or take a month," said Kraule.
The Saratoga Fire District begins formal discussions with the county about the boundary drop with two meetings this week.
The Saratoga Planning Commission will continue to hear public comment on the fire district's new station on June 27. The commission will likely make a decision on station's new design that night.
7th commissioner fills planning board
Jill Hunter, a longtime member of the Saratoga Union School District Board of Trustees, was appointed to the planning commission on June 20. She fills the last vacant seat on the commission.
Hunter has been a resident since 1981 and served the school district board for 10 years beginning in 1988. Most recently she served on the city's heritage preservation commission.
Hunter says the potentially heated atmosphere of planning commission hearings doesn't faze her; as a school board member she had plenty of experience dealing with "contentious issues."
"Hopefully we'll build a team and improve things," said Hunter.
Her resignation from the heritage commission opens a third vacant seat on that board.
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