SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek fire and township advisory boards Monday, Nov. 12, unanimously approved a resolution determining 2019 fire department salaries and a three-year collective bargaining agreement. Fire department personnel will receive a 4 percent salary increase in 2019 and a 2 percent increase each of the following two years. Full-time salaries for 2019 include: fire …read more.

SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek fire and township boards Monday, Oct. 8, gave the go-ahead to pursue installation of a baby box at Fire Station 2 on McClintic Road south of Syracuse. Only three such boxes have been installed in the United States, all of them in Indiana. The climate-controlled boxes are designed to facilitate the …read more.

SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek fire territory and township boards convened in tandem meetings Monday, Sept. 10. The township board took up the first reading of the fire territory’s 2019 proposed budget. The second reading will take place at the board’s October meeting. At the meetings, Fire Chief Mickey Scott presented his monthly report. He reported the …read more.

SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board Monday, Aug. 13, awarded a $507,837 contract to Syracuse-based Milestone Construction for renovations to the territory’s two fire stations. The motion, passed unanimously, was contingent on final contract approval by Andrew Grossnickle, the township’s attorney, Fire Chief Mickey Scott and a representative of Milestone; and submission of a performance …read more.

SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board Monday, July 9, approved Fire Chief Mickey Scott’s proposed 2019 operations and equipment fund budgets. Scott requested $1,822,092 for operations. “This budget represents an increase of $126,238,” said Scott. “Of that amount, we are projecting to provide funding of $45,000 from increased EMS billing revenue. The overall budget …read more.

SYRACUSE — In a brief meeting Monday, June 11, Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board received reports from Trustee Barb Griffith and Fire Chief Mickey Scott. There was no old or new business presented at the meeting. Griffith presented her monthly financial report and noted an uptick in poor relief disbursements for utilities. She paid out …read more.

Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board Monday, May 14, unanimously voted to request bids for improvements to the fire territory’s two stations. Architect Jim Malcolm was on hand to answer questions about the improvement plans and the bidding process. “We have been working on these building improvements for almost two years now,” said Fire Chief Mickey …read more.

SYRACUSE — Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board at its Monday, April 9, meeting approved a request from Fire Chief Mickey Scott to purchase five new SCBAs and 12 SCBA bottles to update the department’s equipment. Scott requested $34,435.70 plus “about $150 to $200” in shipping costs, which represented the lower of two quotes he obtained …read more.

Turkey Creek Township Trustee Barb Griffith announced Monday, Aug. 16, the township will undergo a routine annual budget review by the state department of local government finance. The meeting will take place at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 23, in Warsaw. “All entities in the state that have budgets go through the review,” she said. Griffith …read more.

Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board Monday, June 12, elected John Heckaman to replace Kimberly Cates as fire board chairman. Cates was compelled by operation of law to resign Thursday, June 8, when she was sworn in to replace county council member Bob Sanders, who passed away in May. Her membership on the advisory board was …read more.

Turkey Creek Township Advisory Board Monday, Oct. 10, allocated $40,000 for the purchase of a new fire department command vehicle and heard reports from Trustee Barb Griffith and Fire Chief Mickey Scott. The new vehicle, a 2017 Chevrolet Tahoe, will replace the Chevrolet Suburban the department has used since 2004. The current vehicle “has 116,675 …read more.

Turkey Creek Township Trustee Barb Griffith reported Monday on an unwitting snafu by the contracted groundskeeper of Bethel Cemetery. In remediating the condition of the cemetery’s vegetation, the groundskeeper removed two cedar trees in the northeast corner of the cemetery. Griffith heard from three citizens who objected to cutting down the trees and her subsequent …read more.