MARTIN COUNTY — Negotiations between Martin County Fire Rescue and the Stuart Fire Department may soon begin after Fire Rescue Chief Chad Cianciulli asked county commissioners to help move forward discussions to update their interlocal agreement.
Cianciulli opened the discussion by outlining the origins of the agreement and the conditions that led to its creation.
“In 2020, fire rescue administration changed and we started looking at many different areas that needed to be addressed with our services and with fire rescue in general. This was the biggest area that needed to be addressed was the imbalance that we had with their mutual aid with the city of Stuart. So let me take you to a neighboring jurisdiction for us. North of us, St. Lucie County. South of us, Palm Beach County. Our mutual aid with them, less than one percent. City of Stuart was 21 percent. And the problem wasn’t getting better, it was getting worse. That’s why we had to do this agreement,” Cianciulli said…