The City of Midway, having walked away from the Liberty County Board of Commissioners’ offer to stand up a full-time fire station over 5 years, is scrambling to piece together a new fire department ahead of a Friday visit from state regulators. The Georgia Municipal Association , a nonprofit group for Georgia cities, is helping to front the cost of at least one new fire truck and equipment through a private lender. GMA will lease the trucks to Midway over the next 10 years, which will cost the city over $2 million.
That truck was parked in front of City Hall two hours before the March 24 special called meeting to swear in the new fire chief, Craig Reynolds, and 3 firefighters.
“Well, as you can see, that beautiful truck out there, we’re moving in the right direction for the citizens of Midway,” Mayor Levern Clancy said. “We’re doing it for the citizens of Midway. Because y’all voted us into office to take care of y’all. So we’re moving in a positive direction.”
Clancy added, “We’ve got another truck coming but it’s going to be 300-plus days. But it’s being built.”…