I've asked the LMRFD for a couple documents so we can be better informed at the next fire board meeting.
One is the cost for training, insurance, etc for both paid and volunteer firefighters. The other is the SOP or Standard Operating Procedures for the FMRFD firefighters, and EMS.
I hope to have these documents so we have a better understanding of how our money is being spent, and how it should be spent.
Jay
I received the training costs for firefighter training at MCC not what NACFD and LMRFD paid to train our current volunteers.
Careful, you ask a simple question, and get a political answer.
I was disapointed in the answer from Chief Moore. I aske what it cost to train pain and volunteer forefighters. Rather than tell me what it actually cost to train the current LMRFD or NACFD volunteers, he gave me the cost to take firefighting at Mohave Community College.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should expect political answers that answer the question with misleading information, or half truths.
I'll ask, but I'm pretty sure not one LMRFD volunteer went to the $4500 MCC course, they were trained at the fire district by other firefighters, like 90% of fire districts in Arizona.
I thought Chief Moore and My Flynn said if we decided to have our own fire board they would support us. It seems like they have an agenda to consolidate the two fire districts, and get mad when we don't want to go that way.
Does the chief and Mr Flynn want to move their families to Dolan? Our own firefighters don't live here, they live in Kingman where their families are protected if there's a fire or medical emergency.
We need stright answers... When I told the chief at a fire board meeting the businesses on US93 would pay around $10,000 to the LMRFD if in the district.
The chief told me parcels had to connect to the current fire district to be annexed. He left out that they could do a subscription and pay the same amount.
I don't want political answers and BS, I just want stright answers. Anyone at the meeting in Dolan saw their faces when the man asked about two firefighters doing a rescue, did you beleive them?
You missed the several meetings at which discussion of the costs of administering the subscription program resulted in it not being pursued. The LMRFD does NOT have a subscription program. Why would you want to commit our fire services to the Highway, anyway? It's bad enough our ambulance service is stuck running on the highway. We are trying to get out of that...why in the world would we want to run our fire trucks on the highway too? Your reasoning is extremely difficult to follow.
ReplyDeleteWhen Rosie's burned, your telling me the LMRFD didn't respond? I'm pretty sure they did. I'm just saying they go anyway, they should get paid.
ReplyDeleteAlso, we do bill for fire calls out of district. When we get paid, it is considerably more than the fire subscription would be.
ReplyDeleteThat was then, this is now. Under the current administration the LMRFD does NOT run fire calls on the highway or Whitehills. NACFD takes them. That has been discussed at several meetings, too. Oh...I better mention before you jump all over it, yes, once in awhile, central dispatch calls us by mistake and we go. We bill and may or may not get paid, just as in taxes and ambulance bills, some do and some don't. If not, we pursue legal action and put a lien on property until such a time as it sells and may or may not collect, depending on our position in the line of creditors. Some in our previous administration felt it was our "moral obligation" to run ALL calls on the highway. I maintain, our moral obligation is to the taxpayers who pay for the service.
ReplyDeleteI was never complaining about fire calls on the highway. I complained about the parcels in Meadview that pay no fire tax. With no EMS service I understand why many don't want to pay the fire tax. I pay $200 a year for what?
ReplyDeleteAbout the NACFD responding on the highway, we need to respond to those calls. If the NACFD is responding now, if the NACFD takes over who do you think will respond?