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Commissioners plan countywide meeting to address volunteer fire-department accountability, mutual aid
Summary
Van Zandt County commissioners discussed updating MOUs, increasing financial accountability for monthly stipends, and forming a county-wide volunteer fire association; a meeting of non‑ESD volunteer departments is scheduled for Oct. 1.
Van Zandt County commissioners devoted substantial time at a Sept. 18 workshop to concerns about volunteer fire departments’ readiness, mutual‑aid dispatch practices and the county’s monthly stipends to departments.
The court said it provides monthly supplements (historically $600 per department, discussed as rising to $900 in recent budget conversations) and that several of the county’s memoranda of understanding (MOUs) predate 2012 and should be updated. “We have MOUs with the fire departments, and we provide them $600 a month… I would like for us to update that MOU because it’s prior to 02/2012,” the county judge said. Commissioners and fire officials repeatedly said the county needs…
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