www.GoodMorningGwinnett.com “I feel very good about the budget,” Commission Chairwoman Charlotte Nash said. “There are certainly things we would love to see to be able to add to it (but) the dollar figures created limitations for us.”

Highlights of the budget include 30 new master police officer positions and two new medical units which the fire department can move around the county to address changing needs for services. The new medical units are expected to create 18 new positions in the fire department.

And the fire department is also getting three alternative response pickup trucks that be moved around the county and respond to less serious incidents, thereby freeing up medical units and fire engines to handle the more serious calls that come in and stay closer within their response areas.

“We do feel confident that those alternative vehicles will be able to, in a less expensive way, handle some of our calls that normally an engine or a ladder truck would run on,” Fire Chief Russell Knick said.

SOURCE: www.GwinnettDailyPost.com
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