Thursday, May 04, 2000
Firehouse designed for Monroe
Pumper also on 'buy' list
By Janet C. Wetzel
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MONROE — The city received plans this week for a new firehouse to replace the dilapidated station on Main Street, and bids for a pumper to replace a 1976 model will be opened May 22.
The plans will be reviewed, and bids for the 7,500-square-foot fire station likely will be sought near Labor Day, City Manager Don Whitman said.
The new pumper, estimated to cost $300,000, should be ordered by early July and be ready for delivery about eight months later, Fire Chief Mark Neu said.
Both were made possible through a 2-mill, five-year tax levy voters approved in November.
The city will take out a note against the levy revenue, projected to be about $356,000 annually, to pay for the new pumper and firehouse, said Mayor Elbert Tannreuther. The city will begin receiving that money next year.
The firehouse, estimated to cost $800,000 to $900,000, could be started late this year and finished in about a year, Mr. Tannreuther said.
“It will be smaller than the other one because we don't need the office space in the new building that we have in the fire headquarters,” Mr. Tannreuther said. “We'll need a bunk room, training room, kitchen and bays for the equipment.”
The city is negotiating for an additional piece of property to go with the existing firehouse lot, Mr. Whitman said.
The city and the fire company are looking for temporary quarters to house the 15 firefighters who work out of the old station after that building is demolished, Chief Neu said. The existing station, built in 1953, has a leaky roof and other damage. An expert has said it's not worth saving.
The other firehouse, on Ohio 4, was finished in early 1998. That building, plus the city's new municipal building, were designed by Cole and Russell Architects Inc., Cincinnati, which has designed the new firehouse, Mr. Whitman said.
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