It took more than a month of debate, but the city council Monday night approved increasing the salary for the assistant fire chief to allow Fire Chief Randall Trull to finally fill the vacancy.
Trull came to the council in early March to report he was having trouble filling the position because the $41,933 base salary was lower than the base pay of a first class firefighter. Two members of the department were among the three candidates for the position but accepting the position would ...
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