Weekly Newsletter: Burleson may be building a new library, Citizens raise concerns to City Council over Fire Department misusing ambulances
Plus, The Burleson Buzz Sports Report and more
Hi, readers,
Burleson City Council met last week and received an update on the fire department’s ambulance use, which some citizens raised concerns over.
Prior to citizens raising concerns about the ambulance-use, some citizens raised concerns over Burleson building a new library. While a lot of people in the comment section seemed to feel good about a new and improved library, there were plenty of people who’d prefer to see their tax dollars spent elsewhere.
What do you think about a new library in Burleson?
Anyway, onto the news.
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Burleson may be building a new library
Burleson may be building a new library
The Burleson Library Board discussed a library master plan featuring a $52.5 million 60,000-square-foot library build at its last meeting
December 5 at the Library Board meeting at City Hall, Burleson Library deputy director Sara Miller presented a library master plan featuring concepts for a new 60,505-square-foot public library.
The new library would cost $52.5 million if construction began in 2024, according to the presentation. The construction of a new library isn’t included in the city’s five-year capital plan. The construction costs are estimated to increase 6% every year.
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Citizens raise concerns to City Council over Fire Department misusing ambulances
Citizens raise concerns to City Council over Fire Department misusing ambulances
“You’re sending a paramedic who has two years of schooling, has training similar to an anesthesiologist, a respiratory therapist [and] has all the same capabilities as possible to take a non-emergency person to a non-emergency spot,” Joe Grossman, Burleson resident and Arlington Fire Department lieutenant, said at the meeting.
Three Burleson residents spoke to the Burleson City Council at its meeting December 11 at City Hall to address the fire department’s use of ambulances for non-emergency services.
From October 1 to November 30, 118 of the Burleson Fire Department’s 725 transports were non-emergency (or interfacility) transports, according to assistant fire chief Casey Davis’s presentation to the city council. During that time, CareFlite ambulances completed 59 emergency transports of Burleson patients.
Sports Report: Izuagbe scores 21 in Elks’ first district win
I published the first edition of The Burleson Buzz Sports Report today.
This weekly sports report, which will be published every Sunday moving forward, will highlight key Burleson and Centennial high school sports events in one newsletter instead of multiple brief game recaps sent throughout the week.
In this week’s report, the Burleson Elks earn their first district win of the 2023-24 season behind 21 points from Tamaje Izuagbe, Spartans head basketball coach Trovocia Jackson reflects on the Spartans’ 0-4 start in district, the Lady Spartans bounce back against Seguin after falling to #1-ranked Timberview and Kendall Carlock scores 17 in Lady Elks’ victory over Seguin.
Sports Report: Izuagbe scores 21 in Elks’ first district win
Tamaje Izuagbe scored 21 points as the Burleson Elks varsity basketball team beat the Cleburne Yellow Jackets 54-48 for their first district win Friday at Burleson High School.
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A bigger, better library, filled with banned books is a threat to stupid people. Only the stupid would oppose an expanded library.