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North Penn committee discusses school-district tax rebate to recruit volunteer firefighters
Summary
Chief Wigman urged North Penn School District to consider a school-tax rebate under Act 91 to help recruit and retain volunteer firefighters; administration and the committee signaled support to refer the proposal to the district finance committee for further analysis.
Chief Wigman, speaking on behalf of Montgomery Township fire chiefs, asked the North Penn School District Safe Schools Committee to consider a school-district tax rebate under Act 91 of 2020 to help recruit and retain volunteer firefighters.
Wigman told the committee that Pennsylvania’s volunteer firefighter ranks have fallen sharply — “in 1970, there was about 187,000 volunteer firefighters in Pennsylvania. And now we're somewhere around maybe 30,000 left,” he said — and described Act 91 as an expansion of earlier incentive legislation. He said…
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