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Plymouth Select Board accepts $787,944 FEMA SAFER grant, will ask voters to fund local match
Summary
The Select Board voted to accept a $787,944.40 FEMA SAFER grant to hire additional career firefighters and amended the acceptance to include placing a warrant article on the March town meeting ballot to approve the town’s share of implementation costs in future years.
The Plymouth Select Board voted to accept an award of $787,944.40 from FEMA’s SAFER grant program to hire additional career firefighters and amended the motion to place a warrant article on the March town meeting ballot for voter approval of the town’s local share.
The grant was presented at a public hearing as a competitive award the town had pursued for five years. Kevin, the town’s fire chief, told the board Plymouth was the only department in New Hampshire to receive the 2024 award and said the money would let the department increase staffing toward…
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