Moving Forward
City and college partner on driver's safety course
At its regular meeting on Thursday, the Sierra Vista City Council approved an intergovernmental agreement with Cochise College for the college to construct a driver’s safety course on a 10-acre piece of City-owned land located east of Fire Station 3.
The driver’s safety course is part of a First Responders Academy Cochise College plans to construct in Sierra Vista. The paved driver’s safety course will enable the college to conduct public safety and other driver’s training and certification programs, including CDL certification. It will be used for training recruits in the Southeast Arizona Law Enforcement Training Academy.
In exchange for the land improvements, Cochise College will receive priority usage of the course at no cost. The City will receive the next priority use, followed by general public use. When the property is not being used by the college, the City may use it for driver’s training, certification courses, activities, event overflow parking and other public uses.
In other business:
· The City Council approved a resolution supporting a $17,000 grant awarded to Sierra Vista Fire & Medical Services by the Tohono O’odham Nation for a Medical Chest Compression Device.
· The City Council approved a resolution stating the City’s intent to reimburse itself for capital expenditures it makes, if those expenditures take place before related financing is in place. This complies with Federal Treasury regulations.
· The City Council approved the renewal of an intergovernmental agreement with the Whetstone Fire District to provide ambulance billings services. This IGA was originally established in 2017.
