The plan had been for students at the College of the North Atlantic to provide the labour for the restore and a committee was supposed to have been struck that included members of the Corner Brook Fire Department to oversee the work.
We just didn’t have extra at the time, and we don’t have it now.” “We just could not take operational or any of the money that we had and move it into that. “There’s never been a budget line assigned to this project.”įrom his research Flynn has found that there was a request by then Mayor Charles Pender to look at the budget to identify the funding, but none was identified. Todd Flynn, director of protective services, said the restore is not happening and the reason why is because there is no money for it.ĭespite a verbal commitment at the time of $40,000 by the city to cover the cost of the restore, Flynn said it was never budgeted for. The work was supposed to have been completed this past summer, but in recent days the old truck has been seen parked in the yard at the city’s salt shed on O’Connell Drive, still in the same shape it was when the restoration project was announced in July 2015. Just over two years ago the City of Corner Brook announced a plan to restore a 1948 American LaFrance fire truck that had once been a vital part of the fire department’s fleet.
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