11-21-2018, 08:10 AM
(11-20-2018, 10:58 PM)Spokes Wrote: It's never made any sense that police and EMS are unified but Fire isn't. They could save a boat load putting them all together
Doubtful. You'd probably have to bring every fire fighter up to the highest paid grade across all the cities and townships. Aren't the townships volunteer fire fighters? You'd suddenly be paying volunteers >$100k per year. I'm not saying that is a bad thing or we shouldn't do it, but that the costs would scare any evidence based politician away from doing it.
Amalgamation by stealth is more a more likely course to follow like has happened in other areas (e.g. co-location of the region's call centre and Kitchener's call centre, co-ordination of snow plowing (roads at least), etc.).
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.