By Kris Smith
During Monday’s meeting at the Navarro County Commissioner’s Court, Blooming Grove VFD Chief Chad Marshall requested more time to go over the months long negotiated fire contracts between the county and the Volunteer Fire Departments.
Chief Marshall stated, “As we only received the new contracts last Wednesday, we have not had adequate time to review the new contracts. I’d like to ask for your delay that in time that you can meet with your own fire departments before we are offered a ‘take it or leave it’ style like has been the tradition here.“
Navarro County Commissioners and a Navarro County Volunteer Fire Association liaison committee negotiated the terms of the new VFD contract. Commissioner Eddie Moore stated, “The liaison committee that the fire association put together indicated that they were happy with the contracts.”
Commissioner Jason Grant stated, “This wasn’t a take it or leave it contract. There are guys here who sat for hours with various members of the volunteer fire departments hammering this contract out. I don’t think that was a very fair statement to say business as usual, that is not the case.”
Commissioner Brewer motioned to table the vote to approve the contract resolution.
Due to the NavCo Chronicle’s livestream of the meeting, NCVFA’s Aaron Hogue issued a statement to Commissioners stating, “In no way, shape, form, or fashion does Chad Marshall represent the Navarro County Firefighters Association, the Executive board, or the Liaison committee within the organization. We as an association have had all this ironed out and are ready to go with the contract as we worked it out. There was a lot of time spent between both parties getting all the details put together. We would like to apologize for his actions as we were blind-sided by what transpired. We would also like to thank you all for your assistance with everything. We as an association are ready to move forward if you all would like to move forward at the next meeting.”
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