Friday, November 18, 6 – 7:15 p.m., Eastsound Fire Station
— from Bryon Frenyea, for the Chief Search Committee —
Orcas Island Fire & Rescue, Chief Search Committee would like to invite the public to an informal Meet & Greet for three applicant/candidates for the OIFR Chief’s position. The date is this Friday, November 18 from 6 – 7:15 p.m., at OIFR, Station 21, 45 Lavender Ln, Eastsound.
The format will be for each candidate to have approximately 10 minutes to introduce themselves and then we will open the floor for approximately 10 minutes for questions of the candidate. We hope you are able to join us.
Thank you for your assistance in our search for the new OIFR Chief.
How about some names, including some biographical info on the proposed candidates so we can formulate some questions before the meeting?
Orcas Issues made attempts to obtain further information on the final three Fire Chief candidates. That information is not being released publicly by the OIFR Search Committee prior to the meet and greet on Friday.
I must echo the very reasonable request made by Justin for more information regarding the candidates. It is common practice to publicly announce the names and backgrounds of finalists for the position of fire chief. I am confident that the search committee conducted a thorough and thoughtful process providing us with very capable candidates. However, I do believe, because of how important this decision is to the Orcas community, we should have the opportunity to ask well informed questions come this Friday.
I to would like to know why we (the Tax payer) are left out of the loop. Does the Fire Department really want our input? Believe it nor not, there are some folks on Orcas Island that do not want to drive at night.