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Bacon County adopts ordinance to bill for fire responses; Fire Recovery named collector
Summary
The board adopted an ordinance to implement mitigation rates for emergency and non-emergency fire responses in Bacon County and designated Fire Recovery as the billing and collection agency.
The Bacon County Board of Commissioners on July 15 adopted an ordinance establishing a program to charge mitigation rates for deployment of emergency and non-emergency services by the county fire department.
Commissioner Rusty Sears moved to approve the ordinance; Commissioner Lee Hagans seconded and the motion carried. The ordinance directs the county to charge mitigation rates for services provided by the Fire Department and names Fire Recovery as the county's billing and collection agency.
The meeting record does not include the ordinance text, specific rate schedules or an effective date. The board recorded approval of the ordinance by motion; staff will need to publish the ordinance text and any implementation details, including when billing will begin and which responses are chargeable.
