By a resounding margin, voters approved the renovations project that was two years in the making. An effort by the building committee to ask for voter approval at a special district meeting in March was withdrawn because of concerns that they were spending too much money on a building that was nearly sixty-five years old. The structure which was built in 1935, and later renovated in the early 70's, was designed and built with a call department in mind. Earlier members of the department never saw the possibility of full-time personnel that the department operates with now. The department is staffed with fourteen career personnel and supplemented with a call force of five.
Efforts are underway to increase the call force.
The renovations will reallocate apparatus space, add a EMS decontamination room and storage room, provide separate living quarters for personnel, and improve the sanitary conditions of the kitchen and added locker rooms. The work will also improve the public's accessibility to the building by bringing the Chief's office to the ground floor.