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Woods County adopts rural fire-training reimbursement policy; board to review after implementation

2171574 · January 28, 2025
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Summary

Commissioners approved a county policy establishing training eligibility and reimbursement guidelines for rural fire personnel, including a $100-per-day reimbursement for eligible students and instructors when not paid by another entity, and agreed to review the policy’s operation over the next year or two.

The Woods County Board of Commissioners voted to accept a new rural fire-training policy that sets reimbursement rules, eligibility criteria and documentation requirements for firefighters and instructors.

The policy—introduced as a clarification to a previously passed item (Resolution 2324100, adopted April 22 of the prior year)—specifies reimbursement rates of $100 per day for students attending an eligible eight-hour in-person training and $100 per day for instructors for an eight-hour in-person training, provided the participant or instructor is not being paid by another entity for that training.…

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