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All city staff repurposed in disaster recovery

City Manager John Connet

By Bill Moss, Published: October 2, 2024

Thirty-five city employees filled every seat in the training room of Fire Station 1, wearing reflective vests, jeans and T-shirts with a city emblem, ballcaps. Here were firefighters and cops, as one might expect, but at the 5 o’clock update at the emergency operations center the three dozen city workers of every rank were there in their new role: disaster recovery and relief.