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Harrisburg Fire Station 6 will close.

3 Apr
Thursday @ 5:20 pm

As released by the Office of the Mayor:

April 3, 2014.

MAYOR PAPENFUSE AND ACTING FIRE CHIEF ENTERLINE ANNOUNCE CLOSURE OF FIRE STATION 6

HARRISBURG – Mayor Eric Papenfuse and Acting Fire Chief Brian Enterline will announce the closing of Fire Station 6 at 336 South 2nd St. at a press conference at 1 p.m. Friday in the Atrium of the MLK Government Center in a move to streamline Fire Department operations without compromising public safety.

“After careful deliberation, Acting Chief Enterline and I have concluded that closing Fire Station 6 will help the city meet its budgetary responsibilities without risking public safety,” said Mayor Eric Papenfuse.

The announcement comes as the city welcomes 13 new fire recruits who will significantly strengthen the manpower of the Fire Department. The recruits are undergoing 14 weeks of training at Harrisburg Area Community College to prepare them for the rigors of fire-fighting.

Acting Chief Enterline said closure of the station will not involve layoffs, but will help consolidate resources to improve efficiencies in the Fire Department. Three active fire stations with a total of 5 pieces of fire apparatus will be in active service at all times, he said.

Apparatus from Station 6 (Tower 3) will be put in reserve status, Enterline said, and water rescue assets will be moved to Station 2 and City Island.

“Manpower will be distributed to other apparatus to bring us into better compliance with NFPA 1710, which mandates 4 firefighters per apparatus,” Enterline said.

The acting fire chief said he researched the potential impact of the closure on fire insurance rates, which confirmed that there would be no risk to public safety.

“The ISO rating, which insurance companies use to determine fire insurance rates, will remain strong as a Class 3 municipality,” Enterline said.

Fire Station 2 will serve the State Capital complex, downtown businesses and residences via the State Street Bridge and Market Street, Enterline said. The Mount Pleasant Station also will continue to serve the downtown district.

Fire Station 6, the oldest active fire station, is located in the flood plain and is in need of major repairs, Enterline said. It has been shuttered several times in the last 30 years, he said.

“We studied maps of response times from Station 6 and call volumes from the station,” Enterline said, “and we came to the conclusion that it could be closed without serious issues for fire safety.”

“We will not ‘brown out’ Station 6,” Enterline said, “but we are closing it permanently.”

Photo/Natalie Cake

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Harrisburg Mayor Eric Papenfuse - Replace Gene Veno as Recovery Officer for the Harrisburg School District.

3 Apr
Thursday @ 11:50 am

As released by the Office of the Mayor April 3, 2014:

MAYOR PAPENFUSE CALLS FOR REPLACEMENT OF RECOVERY OFFICER GENE VENO, SUPPORT FOR KEY CHARTER.

HARRISBURG – Mayor Eric Papenfuse announced Thursday he supports the application of Key Charter School to open a school in the former Bishop McDevitt site to help stimulate reform in Harrisburg schools and to provide parents a choice in education for their children.

“I believe in parental choice as an essential component of educational reform,” said Mayor Papenfuse. “The proposal from Key Charter provides the highest and best use I have seen for the former Bishop McDevitt building and would be a positive development for the city.”

Mayor Papenfuse said serious problems persist in the Harrisburg School District and, despite isolated successes such as the Math Science Academy, many schools are failing to provide adequate educational opportunities for Harrisburg youth. The Mayor said he recently met with Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Carolyn Dumaresq to express his alarm at the lack of progress in improving academic standards across all of Harrisburg’s public schools.

“I asked Secretary Dumaresq to replace Gene Veno as Recovery Officer for the Harrisburg School District to bring more energy and a new vision to reinvigorate our schools,” Mayor Papenfuse said. “My concern is that Mr. Veno does not believe Harrisburg schools will meet academic benchmarks under the plan he devised. This is unacceptable and compromises the future of our children.”

Mayor Papenfuse said parents should demand results and a Recovery Officer who can work collaboratively with the Harrisburg Superintendent and school board to lift academic standards.

“I support the Superintendent and the School Board, but we need a Recovery Officer who is confident about how to solve the problems and can help them move forward,” he said.

Mayor Papenfuse said the city can no longer afford to be patient in the face of under-performing schools.

“Just as the City of Harrisburg had two Receivers at different points in its road to recovery, Harrisburg schools need a new Recovery Officer with a more optimistic vision and stronger capabilities in educational reform,” he said.

“There should be a sense of urgency about these under-performing schools,” Mayor Papenfuse said, “and parents ought to have other possibilities to ensure their children are well educated and ready for the workplace. Harrisburg’s economic recovery won’t succeed unless we have an educated workforce ready to claim the jobs that will be created.”

________________________ Archive video: Key Charter.

Ken Cherry, CEO of Key Public Charter School gives a presentation to members of the Harrisburg Board of School Directors, the application calls for converting the now vacant Bishop McDevitt school into a public charter school.

K-12th Grade Estimated Enrollment of 1100 Students.

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