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Taylor County commissioners debate $3-an-hour firefighter pay boost after repeated station closures
Summary
Commissioner Jerry Fiegel asked the board to raise firefighter pay by $3 an hour after repeated temporary station closures left parts of Taylor County with limited local fire coverage.
Commissioner Jerry Fiegel urged the board to act after the county experienced multiple temporary fire-station closures, including a 24-hour closure at a beach-area station and multi-day closures elsewhere, leaving portions of Taylor County with reduced local coverage. "This seems to be getting more frequent," Fiegel said, and asked the board to "reconsider the salaries to see if we could raise our firefighters by $3 an hour" to improve staffing.
The county administrator, LaWanda Pemberton, and other commissioners discussed trade-offs and budget constraints. Pemberton explained that any recurring pay increase funded from MSTU (Municipal Service Taxing Unit) reserves would reduce funds available for other services that MSTU covers,…
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