At its June 22 meeting, the Dexter City Council considered an amendment to the city’s False Alarm Ordinance that will allow the city to recover the cost of responding to false fire alarms, closing a gap that had existed in the ordinance for nearly two decades.
Until now, Dexter could charge property owners for false alarms that required a police response, but not for false alarms that brought out the Dexter Area Fire Department. City officials said repeated false fire alarms have become increasingly costly because each response is billed to the city by the fire department.
What the Ordinance Changes…