San Joaquin County supervisors Mario Gardea and Steven Ding co-chair an ad hoc committee to investigate the Farmington Fire Department. Gardea said this is one of the larger areas and districts within the county.
It came up as an emergency meeting in the county Board of Supervisors' last session on February 10, which resulted in a unanimous motion "to add a discussion item regarding the absence of fire administration at the Farmington Fire Protection District".
CBS News Sacramento was told within the past few weeks that Battalion Fire Chief Conni Bailey, Assistant Fire Chief John Kalebaugh, and EMS medical officer all resigned, and that Fire Chief Matt Bailey, Conni's son, is out on workers' comp.
At the Board of Supervisors meeting, Farmington Fire Vice President Jacob Samuel spoke on behalf of the board, which is looking to add someone outside of the fire district to help with the department administration work, including payroll and paying bills, along with an acting chief.
"I live in the community," Samuel said. "I want to make sure we have adequate coverage. That's been the concern of a lot of the people in the area, to make sure we have that adequate coverage."
"We just got to make sure that we have people in place to protect our citizens," Gardea said. "They're not always Farmington citizens. It could be some residents from San Francisco driving to the mountains to go snow skiing, so it's not only just the residents of Farmington. It's also the residents of, basically, Northern California."
Gardea said at Farmington Fire's board meeting Monday evening, there was a job announcement for a new fire chief position in Farmington. Gardea thinks the sooner they can get a fire chief, the better.
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