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Fairfield council calls for March 1 referendum on fire station
The Fairfield City Council approved a resolution at its meeting Dec. 27 calling for a city referendum on a new fire station for March 1.
The referendum, which all registered voters in Fairfield can vote on, will ask voters if they wish to approve a $5 million bond to build a new fire station.
The exact verbiage of the referendum reads: “Shall the city of Fairfield, Iowa, enter into a loan agreement and issue its general obligation capital loan notes in an amount not to exceed $5,000,000 for the purpose of acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement and equipping of a fire station?”
The city has announced a plan to build a new fire station at the corner of West Briggs Avenue after demolishing vacant buildings previously used by the Iowa Department of Transportation. The city purchased that lot in 2020.
A fire station task force was formed in 2021 and, after reviewing some sites, including building a new fire station at the existing property on North Second Street, recommended to the council building a new fire station a couple of blocks away on West Briggs.
This is an architect’s rendering of the proposed fire station in Fairfield that would be built at the corner of West Briggs Avenue and North Fourth Street, if approved by voters during a referendum on March 1, 2022. (Image courtesy of Klingner & Associates, PC)
This is an architect’s rendering of the proposed fire station in Fairfield that would be built at the corner of West Briggs Avenue and North Fourth Street, if approved by voters during a referendum on March 1, 2022. The image shows how fire trucks would be able to drive into and out of the building without having to go in reverse. (Image courtesy of Klingner & Associates, PC)
