I hope this works out for them, sounds like the area could use the service.
One thing people don't realize or know is that there are no townships, villages, boroughs, any type of political divisions like most states. Its either city or county here. Some counties do have fire levies that provide funding, most don't. City VFD's are the same way. Each fire dept. in the state gets an automatic set amount of money quarterly from the state of WV. I think it may be near $30,000 now. The dept. has to be "recognized and certified" by the state fire marshals office and complete quarterly paper work. If not the funding will be and has been cut off. This money is all that some depts. have to work with yearly!
I know that Cabell and Wayne counties have fire levies and Wayne county in particular generates at least $30,000 a year for each of its depts. The city of Huntington has a strange boundary as the west end of the city sits in Wayne county. The majority of the county is in Cabell county and the whole city is governed in Cabell County. Yet HFD gets a portion of the Wayne county fire levy. Engine #8 (st.8), what is called Westmoreland is in Wayne county.
My city Point Pleasant was a paid dept. for years and most likely still would be if they had unionized but this is another story. We get city, state and county money. At one time the county had a fire levy but, it was voted down after a few years. The county realized the need for support for the depts. and has since then financially support the depts. The money does fluctuate depending on the counties cash flow. The money a dept. receives is based solely on run volume. My dept being the busiest with around 350 calls a year (no EMS) gets the most. I've seen as much as $32,000 down to $20,000. The city put us on the public service bill which generates another $24,000 I think.
This is most likely the reason Bakerton did not have a building in place first and had a lot of used older apparatus. Like many vfds outside fund raising also supplies a great deal of the budget for any vfd. Some WV vfds do a great job of fund raising. Some don't! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' /> I know of one dept. in Cabell county that has a paid secretary all through outside fund raising.
One thing people don't realize or know is that there are no townships, villages, boroughs, any type of political divisions like most states. Its either city or county here. Some counties do have fire levies that provide funding, most don't. City VFD's are the same way. Each fire dept. in the state gets an automatic set amount of money quarterly from the state of WV. I think it may be near $30,000 now. The dept. has to be "recognized and certified" by the state fire marshals office and complete quarterly paper work. If not the funding will be and has been cut off. This money is all that some depts. have to work with yearly!
I know that Cabell and Wayne counties have fire levies and Wayne county in particular generates at least $30,000 a year for each of its depts. The city of Huntington has a strange boundary as the west end of the city sits in Wayne county. The majority of the county is in Cabell county and the whole city is governed in Cabell County. Yet HFD gets a portion of the Wayne county fire levy. Engine #8 (st.8), what is called Westmoreland is in Wayne county.
My city Point Pleasant was a paid dept. for years and most likely still would be if they had unionized but this is another story. We get city, state and county money. At one time the county had a fire levy but, it was voted down after a few years. The county realized the need for support for the depts. and has since then financially support the depts. The money does fluctuate depending on the counties cash flow. The money a dept. receives is based solely on run volume. My dept being the busiest with around 350 calls a year (no EMS) gets the most. I've seen as much as $32,000 down to $20,000. The city put us on the public service bill which generates another $24,000 I think.
This is most likely the reason Bakerton did not have a building in place first and had a lot of used older apparatus. Like many vfds outside fund raising also supplies a great deal of the budget for any vfd. Some WV vfds do a great job of fund raising. Some don't! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' /> I know of one dept. in Cabell county that has a paid secretary all through outside fund raising.
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