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Germantown committee updates fire department fee schedule, negotiates lower billing fee; residents raise concerns about bills and referendum transparency
Summary
The Village of Germantown Public Safety Committee approved updates to the fire department’s billable services schedule and reported the village’s billing fee was renegotiated from 8% to 3%.
The Village of Germantown Public Safety Committee approved an update to the fire department’s billable services schedule, adding chargeable items and updating rates to align with Medicare, comparable departments and supply costs. Committee members were told the village’s billing vendor fee was renegotiated from 8% to 3%.
Staff said the updated schedule explicitly adds services the department had not previously billed for, such as cleanup costs for certain incidents on U.S. 41 and reinspection fees for…
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