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Bowie volunteer fire leaders ask council to cover $7,000 ramp shortfall and boost ambulance stipend fund
Summary
Leaders of Bowie Volunteer Fire Department seek $7,000 reimbursement for a repaired apron at Station 39 and asked council to consider enlarging a stipend program that pays volunteers $25 an hour to staff an ambulance, saying the measures help keep ambulances running and fund apparatus purchases.
Leaders of Bowie’s volunteer fire service asked the City Council on Monday for two pieces of financial help: a one-time reimbursement of $7,000 to cover a shortfall for repairs to the concrete apron at Station 39, and additional city support for a stipend program that pays volunteers to staff an ambulance during daytime hours.
The deputy chief of the volunteer department said the station’s front ramp failed and that the department secured $25,000 in state funding toward a $32,000 repair. "We were able to secure 25,000 against a cost that came in at 32,000," he said, and requested that the council consider reimbursing the $7,000 gap from the municipal grants account that the city maintains for community initiatives.
The second request described a paid-on-call stipend intended to increase daytime staffing at Station 39 after Prince George’s County removed career personnel from that location. The department has…
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