The city’s Emergency Medical Services has been dealing with pending repairs to Center Station on Bedford Street, and has not given up the idea of buying a building to permanently house their public safety department. 

At a City Council meeting last month, EMS officials presented councilors with the idea of leasing, rather than buying or constructing, a building at 74 Corneau St., maintaining that the space was large enough to hold Fall River’s EMS personnel and equipment.

That dream was deferred — and still is, after councilors vetoed the initial appropriation amount to enter into a lease. And at the Sept. 9 City Council meeting, a new resolution spearheaded by City Councilor Cliff Ponte to ensure the council must approve any real estate lease, license or occupancy agreement entered into by the city and costing more than $50,000 was referred to the Committee on Ordinances and Legislation.

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