Thursday, November 29, 2012
Families from Aish HaTorah prepared dinner for local departments for the second year.
Thanks to Channah Appel, who coordinated this program, for providing much of the information below. Some information below was also included in an article published in 2011. While many enjoyed a Thanksgiving meal with their families this past Thursday, some local police officers and firefighters were working. Channah Appel started a program last year to thank them for their service and make sure they could celebrate the holiday, too. For the second year, she rounded up families from Aish HaTorah, an international organization based in Jerusalem and an adult and family Jewish Education program, and asked them to help prepare traditional Thanksgiving dishes and deliver them to the Cleveland Heights Police Department and the Beachwood and …
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Here's a look at a preliminary study on a potential merging of the fire departments in University Heights and Shaker Heights.
The governments in University Heights and Shaker Heights will spend the summer pondering a merger of the communities' fire departments. Both parties await logistical details from North Carolina-based Emergency Services Consulting International to gauge whether merging would work and how much money such a move would save. The Cleveland Foundation gave the cities a $40,000 grant to help cover the cost of the study. ESCI hopes to have the study completed by late June or early July, Senior Vice President of Operations Philip Kouwe said. The organization has already completed a preliminary Cooperative Fire Service Delivery Feasibility Analysis based on information the cities gave to ESCI. You can view full results of the study by clicking on …
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A final report with information on potential consolidation savings and more should be available this summer.
Editor's note: Shaker Heights Patch will launch very soon, but we are so excited to be in the new town, we thought, why wait to start making your lives ridiculously easy? We'll be featuring occasional Shaker Heights news on neighboring sites until we launch the new site in early June, when you can add ShakerHeights.Patch.com to your browser's bookmarks! Two months could pass before residents get a clear vision of a fire department merger between Shaker Heights and University Heights. According to Emergency Services Consulting International, the firm hired to explore the cities' options, that's when some fun will ensue. "When (communities) decide to move forward with it and they actually start creating a firm implementation plan, in other …
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Brandon Baker
3:45 pm on Tuesday, May 22, 2012
SMF, thanks for reading. The headline was simply a call for people to view the study. The information you're likely looking for about this issue was included in this article (http://clevelandheights.patch.com/articles/uh-shaker-discuss-merging-fire-departments). It was posted last week following the most recent public meeting on the matter. Hope that helps. more ›