Traverse City Commissioners were met with a full house at Monday evenings meeting. Traverse City Firefighters showed up in numbers after the city manager unveiled an early draft of the city’s budget for the fiscal year of 2022-2023. The budget left out three additional firefighter positions suggested by the Fire Chief Jim Tuller. Traverse City Firefighters Local Union 646’s President Jacob Steichen says they need more personnel in order to meet the demand. “We looked at these three positions as a stopgap so they wouldn’t have a tragedy this summer. We foresee a tragedyPkg00 00 33 28still002 this summer,” Steichen proclaims. “We do need solutions. We are at this point, strangulated by the lack of action. we need action. We need this commission to give us some relief so that we can go to work and do what we can.”