Community Meeting - Potentially Losing Firehall/Community Center

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Meeting ID: 829 1633 2171 Passcode: e5pkUY

The Lake Samish Fire Hall and Community Building suffered significant damage recently due to a water pipe valve leak. The South Whatcom Fire Authority is in the process of assessing and working to repair the damage. However, the SWFA (South Whatcom Fire Authority) has been discussing designating 3 fire halls as surplus, and selling those fire halls on the open market to help provide funds to upgrade the more active fire halls. As the Lake Samish Fire Hall is only being used as storage for SWFA, the Lake Samish Fire/Community Hall has been identified as one of the buildings to designate as surplus, and sell on the open market. Our Lake Samish Community may lose our Community Hall that was donated and built by the Lake Samish community members. There is a long history of Community members building the first Community Hall in the early…