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Hillsborough fire chief says missed 2023 county allocation jeopardizes tanker purchase
Summary
At a July 24 Health, Welfare and Recreation Committee meeting, Hillsborough Fire Chief Anthony Parish said a missed county accounting step cost the department access to $41,066 tied to a smoke-detector resolution and could double the department’s out-of-pocket cost to buy a pumper tanker.
Hillsborough Fire Chief Anthony Parish told the Health, Welfare and Recreation Committee on July 24 that a county accounting error tied to a smoke-detector resolution left his department without $41,066 that had been intended for equipment, imperiling a planned pumper-tanker purchase. Parish said the department discovered a bill from 2023 that the county did not pay from the fund set aside under the smoke-detector resolution and that the money was rolled back into the county’s general fund when receipts were not submitted before the fiscal books closed on June 30.
The issue matters because Parish said the department had identified a pumper-tanker it intended to buy and had been planning to use two years’ worth of the resolution funds and local…
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