IW council want to move the Island Fire Control (the people who answer your emergency fire phone calls) off the Surrey, but an FoI request reveals that Surrey haven't had the right staffing levels
The decision to install dedicated private lines between the Island and Surrey's fire control centre has resulted in a delay of four months and savings shortfall of £65,000.
Let's hope that tonight's full council meeting will close once all business has been completed and not finished before members can ask questions of the cabinet members.
Cabinet members will decide tonight whether to reverse the decision to move the fire control centre off the Island - this can then be debated and voted upon at next Full Council meeting in July
Decision to move the fire control centre is to be discussed at the next full council council (15th June) after Geoff Lumley adds a motion to debate and vote on the decision made under delegated power by Barry Abraham last month
We called 101 and it didn't identify that we were on the Isle of Wight. With this in mind, is the council's decision to move Fire Control to Surrey really what's best for the Island?
Surrey County Council announced yesterday they had formally reached an agreement for Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service to use their control centre from March