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FRESNO, Calif (KSEE/KGPE) – Accomplishments and pending projects were announced astatine Fresno's yearly State of the City.
One task Mayor Jerry Dyer touched connected was the airport enlargement project. It volition triple planetary question astatine the Fresno Yosemite International Airport.
The metropolis is besides anticipating the expansive opening of the caller 911 Emergency Call Center.
"Our connection halfway is not conscionable Fresno PD, it is the nationalist information reply constituent for fire, EMS, and police," said Fresno Police Chief Mindy Casto.
Last month, the Fresno City Council approved a $13 cardinal contract to physique the caller communications center. The tract volition beryllium connected the country of G and El Dorado streets.
"It's just very important that we person a state-of-the-art installation that allows those dispatchers to get to those calls quickly, the instrumentality that helps them to beryllium businesslike and to service the assemblage arsenic champion we can," Chief Casto explained.
The Fresno Fire Department is looking guardant to a new occurrence presumption disconnected Ashland and Valentine. Fire Chief Billy Alcorn said that Fire Station 12 was built arsenic a impermanent solution.
"And 30-plus years later, we are present yet gathering a imperishable occurrence presumption that volition amended service the community, quicker entree to the freeway, and assistance with the maturation that we've experienced arsenic an enactment successful the city," Chief Alcorn added.
But Thursday's lawsuit was besides a clip to item those who play a manus successful Fresno's growth. Mayor Jerry Dyer presented the cardinal to the metropolis to Fresno Mission CEO Matt Dildine.
Dyer besides highlighted a fig of organizations and leaders, similar this year's One Fresno Awardee, the precocious Al Smith. Smith was the erstwhile President and CEO of the Fresno Chamber of Commerce, a broadcast legend, and loved by galore successful the community. He passed distant successful February.
"The One Fresno Award is presented to an idiosyncratic who has made a lasting and transformative interaction connected our city," said Mayor Dyer. His granddaughter Amber Smith accepted the award. "Being capable to judge this for him is genuinely an grant due to the fact that arsenic overmuch of an interaction helium made connected our city, if I could marque adjacent a 4th of that, I'd consciousness lucky," she shared.
And each these projects beryllium connected authorities funding, grants, and budgets. Dyer says he'll contiguous adjacent year's fiscal fund to the metropolis council later adjacent week.
If you did not person the accidental to be this year's State of the City, KSEE 24 volition big a peculiar study that volition aerial exclusively connected May 22 astatine 7 p.m.
