TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Ronald L Martin, Fire Chief
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM, City Manager
DATE: October 14, 2025
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PROCLAMATION - FIRE PREVENTION MONTH 2025
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Motion to proclaim October 2025 as Fire Prevention Month.
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Background:
The history of fire prevention month begins with the creation of the very first fire prevention week in 1922. In that year the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) named the second week of October as fire prevention week. Fire prevention week was established to commemorate The Great Chicago fire of 1871 that took the lives of more than 250 people. It is a recommendation that this Proclamation be approved.
City Attorney Review:
Approved as to form and legal sufficiency.
Funding Source/Financial Impact:
There is no cost to the city for this resolution.
Timing of Request:
This amended Resolution would go in effect at time of adoption.