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Parmer County approves $40,000 in volunteer fire department subsidies
Summary
At the Dec. 9 meeting, the Parmer County Commissioners Court accepted annual incident reports from five volunteer fire departments and approved subsidy amounts that total $40,000 distributed among Farwell, Bovina, Friona, Lazbuddie and Rhea‑Hollene.
The Parmer County Commissioners Court reviewed annual incident reports from county volunteer fire departments and approved subsidy amounts that, when summed from the minutes, total $40,000.
Judge Isabel 'Izzy' Carrasco moved to approve the reported numbers; Commissioner Kirk Frye seconded and the motion passed by majority vote. The minutes list the per-department subsidy amounts as: Farwell $13,416.21; Bovina $5,962.71; Friona $13,167.76; Lazbuddie $6,211.16; Rhea‑Hollene $1,242.16.
The minutes note that departments receive an additional subsidy based on their share of calls and that the number of calls presented by departments was used in allocation. The Court recorded approval of the numbers as presented; the minutes do not provide an itemized roll-call tally for the vote.
The action formalizes the county's routine annual allocation to volunteer fire departments for incidents responded to outside municipal limits. The Court adjourned at 11:02 a.m.
