Quarterly Reports for City of Centre Departments
During the Centre City Council meeting this week, the building inspector’s quarterly report was given. There was $652,285 total value in Commercial building permits with the City retaining $1385 in permit fees. The permits for residential building totaled $1,696,622 with $3167 in permit fees. New Commercial sign permits value was $22,545 resulting in a total value of building during the quarter of $2,373,407 with the City retaining $4,596.50 in permit fees.
Fire Marshall, Robert Pace, gave the Quarterly Report for the Fire Department. There was a total of 216 calls with 78% being medical related. There were 5 structure fires, 1 vehicle fire, 39 traffic accidents, 18 false alarms, 3 inspections, 1 certified to Fire Instructor 2, EVD Training for 22 firemen, held public safety night, the department declared 2 engines surplus with one sold to an entity in Arkansas and the other to Missouri. EMT Training began in August with clinical now ongoing. The Learning Well PreK Parents visited the station, the Department participated in the Fall Festival, visited the Learning Well PreK and visited Cherokee County High School Adulting Day.
In the Police Report, the department issued 180 incidence and offense reports resulting in 81 arrests, worked 40 traffic accidents with no fatalities and 12 with injuries. Officers issued 917 traffic citations and warnings.
From the Park and Recreation Department, Soccer began in September with 157 registered, More than 7 teams organized with referees. Also maintained the fields, provide goals and balls. For the 25-26 Basketball season by delivering informational flyers to all schools and purchasing basketballs for the league. The department hosted the fall festival Fun Run, ordered Fall Fest T-Shirts, and performed maintenance on the swimming pool while maintaining more than 20 acres of parks, fields, and buildings.
From the Street and Sanitation Department, mowing in the City is still ongoing but is slowing down, mosquito spraying is continuing, pot hole patching along the City Streets, spraying around signs, put the street barriers for the Fall Festival, performed repairs on Cross Drain on Hincy Street.
The Mayor and Council thanked the Department Heads and employees for a good job during the quarter.
