Cranberry’s tax-supported Fire Company will remain a volunteer organization. But an assortment of major administrative changes are in the wind. A strategic fire planning initiative begun last year culminated in a series of recommendations which were presented to Cranberry’s Board of Supervisors at its meeting on May 5. The recommendations grew out of series of meetings involving a panel of residents and Fire Company members which were reinforced by a parallel assessment of the Township’s fire service conducted by the Education, Training and Consulting Group of Volunteer Fire Insurance Services. Among the citizens’ report’s recommendations are revising the Fire Company’s 1981 agreement with the Township which was last updated in 1999, hiring a full-time chief/executive to manage department operations, benchmarking response standards, creating a long-range capital spending plan, and comprehensively reviewing membership requirements. The Board accepted their recommendations and thanked the Committee members for their considerable effort. For more information, contact Jeff Schueler, Director, Public Safety