The Iredell County Board of Commissioners approved, by consent, Budget Amendment No. 8 to use funds from the countywide fire tax service district to assist South Iredell Fire Rescue with apparatus repairs totaling $29,005.

Kent Green presented the request on behalf of the Fire Tax Oversight Committee and said the department has had several requests for assistance after the county moved from the countywide to an all-county service district model. "This is a similar request from South Iredell for the amount of $29,005," Green said, noting the department lost a frontline truck in a wreck in November–December and the repairs concern a reserve truck and another older vehicle acquired during a department transition.

A commissioner asked whether proceeds from departments selling apparatus return to the county apparatus replacement fund. Green said that, by contract, any apparatus purchased after Jan. 1, 2002 requires county approval to transfer and that sales proceeds are supposed to be returned to the apparatus replacement fund if the department sells equipment.

The board approved the budget amendment as part of the consent agenda; no roll-call vote tally was included in the transcript.

Staff noted the county’s apparatus replacement and sale rules will continue to guide how sale proceeds are handled.