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Council, fire company consider letting county funding formula replace town's unrestricted grant; MOU proposed to simplify annual agreement

Mayor and Council · September 29, 2025
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Summary

Councilors and fire-company leaders discussed asking the county to apply its funding formula in lieu of the town's annual unrestricted grant and recommended a simplified one-page MOU in the short term to clarify budgeted grant amounts and payment timing.

Council and Berlin Fire Company representatives discussed two related options for stabilizing operating funding: (1) ask the county to apply its existing funding formula directly to the fire company instead of the town issuing an annual unrestricted grant and (2) prepare a simplified memorandum (one-page MOU) or short contract that…

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