The rural tax payer is charged 40 1/2 cents per thousand, and another 20 cents for EMS.
That being said, it doesn't even hardly cover our insurance expences. Max. taxation allowed by the state of Iowa, for probably the last twenty five years.
In the past few years we have been aproched by several home owners that their insurance will pay--usualy $500.00 for a call. However they MUST HAVE A INVOICE to do so. The home owner can not collect this money, so if we do not send a invoice, we are tossing money away.
I detected no ill feelings about fire departments, but everyone needs to think of our lost wages. Say 25 men, for a couple hrs. And I'm here to tell you, that the fire scene is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to fire departments. Ask anyone who lives near a fire station, they usualy wonder what the heck everyone is doing there all the time. We are more than happy to have others join in, but it is usualy more of a comitment than most folks can offer.
All problems are solved by more education in Iowa, so we have to pay for the classes, ofered by the same folks that insist we need the training--follow the dollars.
I'm a old boy 30 plus on fire, and same for EMS, and it always starts out as a good idea, then they turn it into mandatory education, fire is usualy on target, EMS is simply a speaker filling in a time slot, with nothing to do with our EMS. We refer to it as a money making machine for our area schools.
Where else can you get twenty five men at your door in a wink of a eye 24/7. I could go on and on about expences that would blow your mind, and I'm a guessing the $65.00 would not cover the radios / pagers for a single man on that deaprtment.
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