The Daily Herald has an article about the Village of Barrington Fire Department and the Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District dividing their assets for what will become the two separate departments after the 1st of January.
The Barrington Fire Department and Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District on Friday took the last major step before they separate on Jan. 1, by dividing up the vehicles and equipment they co-own.
… both sides expressed satisfaction with the division.
Officials of the 48-square-mile fire district just outside of Barrington also found out this week that 16 of the 19 laid-off Barrington firefighters to whom it offered jobs have applied with them. Barrington Countryside offered these firefighters their current union salaries and vacation time, but not a continuation of their pensions.
Rowan said it is important to the fire district to retain firefighters with as much experience and institutional memory of the fire district as work there now.
The rest of the fire district’s roster of 33 full-time firefighters will be filled with staff provided by private contractor Paramedic Services of Illinois.
“I think the residents are going to be really pleased,” Rowan said. “We have the equipment we need and the personnel we need.”
On Jan. 1, the fire district will terminate its long-running contract for service from the Barrington Fire Department.
The newly divided equipment should be moved to its new locations among the village’s fire station and the fire district’s two stations in Barrington Hills and Lake Barrington about a week or two before the Jan. 1 split, Rowan said.
The contractual relationship between the village and fire district will be officially finished at the shift change at 8 a.m. on Jan. 1, he added.
Some of the previous posts on this split can be found HERE, HERE, and HERE.
