Numbers don’t lie with the remarkably unsustainable fiscal path for fire services in San Benito County.
With constant misinformation, I must set the record straight...
Most San Juan Bautista council members Monday read over a proposed fire contract line by line as if a misspelling or improper acronym might lead to their deaths. Councilman Jim West, who didn’t bother bringing the contract document to the gathering, generally sat back and wasn’t part of the extraordinarily thorough examination.
When 14 people marched in cadence onto the stage at the Veterans Memorial Building in Hollister on Thursday night, they were recruits. After they took the oath of office from Assistant City Clerk Christine Black and received their badges from family members, Fire Chief Bob Martin Del Campo was the first to introduce them to the audience as “firefighters.”