2026 may be the year that Eugene Springfield firefighters get a long awaited change to how their department is funded and structured, and the head of their union is in support.
The Eugene City Council discussed and endorsed a plan earlier in December that would create an intergovernmental entity between Eugene and Springfield to administrate the Eugene Springfield Fire Department.
The plan would end a roughly 20-year-old agreement between the cities that began the process of merging their then-separate fire departments. It would instead place operations under a shared entity governed by a board…