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Commissioners consider raising monthly stipend to volunteer fire departments; compromise set at $900
Summary
Budget draft initially doubled the monthly payment to volunteer fire departments from $600 to $1,200; commissioners discussed a smaller increase and agreed in workshop discussion to a $900 monthly payment as a compromise pending final budget adjustments.
The county’s draft budget proposed increasing the monthly payment to volunteer fire departments from $600 (last adjusted in 2012) to $1,200. Commissioners discussed the proposal’s fiscal impact and agreed in the workshop context to move to a compromise increase to $900 per department per month while staff finalizes budget adjustments.
Why it matters: the stipend is the recurring operating support the county provides to volunteer fire departments. The draft showed…
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