Fire departments equipment approved for 2016

Justin Seward
Times Reporter

 

Wheatland County Council arrived at a decision to spend millions of dollars over the next decade to ensure the Wheatland County Fire Capital Committee funding for new equipment.
Over $6 million will be spent over the next 10 years in Fire Capital Funding for equipment for seven fire departments in the county.
Wheatland County’s Chairman of the Fire Capital Committee and General Manager of Agriculture and Community and Protective Services, Jim Laslo, was pleased that council approved the 10-year capital plan and some adjustments that will be made accordingly.
“The Fire Capital Committee brought forward their requests and recommendations for capital assets, based on the needs of the Fire Associations and Wheatland County Fire Services,” said Laslo.
“The 10-year capital plan is reviewed annually, and changes are made to it as deemed necessary. Based on priorities with the needs of the county as a whole considered.”
For 2016, the pieces of equipment that were approved in the budget were the tender for the Gleichen and District Fire Association that’s worth $350,000 with $210,000 of that coming from the Fire Large Capital Fund, a fire engine for the Hussar Rural Fire Association for $500,000 with $300,000 coming from the Fire Large Capital Fund. Lastly, an engine for the Wheatland County Fire Services and the Carseland Fire Department for $436,000 with the Fire Large Capital Fund supplying $261,600 of that to round out the sufficient funding that Wheatland County will include in their 2016 budget for the four front line apparatus.
Additionally, the Fire Capital Committee wanted the large capital fund to help with the Rosebud Fire Association’s bush buggy worth $160,000, with $96,000 coming from the large capital fund, as well as Dalum receiving a generator for $27,000 with $16,584 of that being funded by the large capital fund.
Council was told that all associations are included in some aspects of the 10-year plan.