Excerpts from EvanstonNow.com:
Evanston City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz announced today that he’s asked Police Chief Richard Eddington to supervise the fire department on an interim basis.
Fire Chief Greg Klaiber is retiring next week, and Bobkiewicz says the city will conduct its own nationwide recruitment process to fill the vacancy. He hopes the new fire chief will start work Jan. 1.
Eddington will supervise the fire department’s deputy and division chiefs in the meantime, but operations will otherwise continue as usual.
thanks Drew
#1 by Bill Post on September 9, 2016 - 6:30 PM
I’m wondering if this retirement was planned or whether it was sudden? It seems to have come out of left field, especially since the police chief is being asked to be the interim fire chief instead of the deputy fire chief as in many other places. The city manager wants to conduct a nationwide wide recruitment process. I hope they are willing to consider someone who is from the local area or from the Evanston Fire Department who knows the area.
Just a few years ago the city manager tried to eliminate one of the the town”s two truck companies but an arbitrator ruled in the fire department’s favor. I hope this doesn’t put a damper on the town’s ambitious fire apparatus replacement program and that the city manager is going attempt to use his axe once again.