Annual budget set for Glenwood City Fire and Ambulance
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At a meeting last week member municipalities that receive service from the Glenwood City Ambulance and Fire Departments approved their budgets for 2020.
For the fire department the proposed budget calls for expenditures of $120,524, up some $19,000 over the current year.
To support the budget the fire department collects funds from charges for fire calls and also assesses a standby charge each year to each municipality. Those standby charges are based on the equalized value of each municipally for the area covered. The total equalized value of property in the fire district is $251,561,322.
The total proposed standby charge for 2020 is $79,824, which is some $7,600 higher than billed in 2019, and is billed to the following municipalities: City of Glenwood City, $21,672. The city comprises some 27 percent of the value in the fire district.
The Town of Glenwood has 24 percent of the value and will pay $19,476 for their share of the standby charge. The Town of Springfield is 19 percent and will pay $15,554. The Town of Emerald is 16 percent and will pay $12,403. The Town of Tiffany has five percent of the value and will pay $4,019. The Village of Downing is 4.38 percent and will pay $3,500 with the Town of Forest paying $3,201 and they are just 4.1 percent of the value.
The department had a fund balance on January 1, 2019 of $8,507.
As for the ambulance service, their proposed budget for 2020 was set at $196,447, which is some $12,538 higher than the current year.
Their proposed budget calls for an income of $105,000 from ambulance runs and some $86,947 in standby charges to the local municipalities that are covered by the Glenwood City ambulance.
The standby charges are figured on the population within the district. Their report indicated that in their service area 3,453 people reside. Each municipality is billed $25.18 per person for a total billing of $86,947, an increase of about $1,300 from 2019.
The following is the charges that each municipality will pay for the 2020 standby charges.
The City Of Glenwood City, $31,274; Town of Emerald, $13,446; Town of Forest, $3,928; Town of Glenwood, $19,842; Town of Springfield, $11,784 and the Village of Downing, $6,673.
Population for those municipalities receiving service from the Glenwood City Ambulance was shown in their report as follows: Glenwood City, 1242; Town of Emerald, 534; Town of Forest, 156; Town of Glenwood, 788; Town of Springfield, 468 and 265 in the Village of Downing.
The service had a fund balance of $89,943 at the beginning of 2019.
