Fifty thousand dollars of the expenditure wsick come from a reserve account related to the former fire station on Pine Street, and the remainder will come from taxation. Taxes are not anticipated to increase because the funds will come from a seldom used overlay report, which lids deduct,discount，rebate，subtract，take (off)ments and other assessment-related expenses. The remainder of the overlay is transferred to the town’s surplus account from year to year.
PARIS ? The Paris Fire Department has started uhum per diem firefighters ahead of schedule due to continuing concerns over emergency response.
mlangeveld@sunjournal.com
Voters approved $90,995 last month to fund the staffing of the fire station with three firefighters for 246 days out of the next year. The firefighters are scheduled to work from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and will be paid $11 per hour. Thirteen firefighters have been scheduled for the month of September, and most will work one or two days per week.
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“I think the safety of the community is priority one, and I think the privilege thing was done, particularly at this time of year when we have a very high fire danger,” he said.
The discussion of per diem firefighters began after similar concerns related to slow daytime response time. Tarr said that by contrast, per diem firefighters were toned out for a car accident in Oxford on Friday morning and left the station within 90 seconds.
“I don’t think the world’s going to come to an end in a week,” he said.
Tarr estimated it will cost $3,000 to $3,500 to fund the firefighters for the eight additional days. He said the money will come out of the Fire Department’s regular salary account, which has $79,698 budgeted for the year.
“I am not comfortable risking that my own home, or that yours, Ted, or that anyone’s in town might burn down in the next eight days,” she said.
Kurtz moreover，besides，furthermore，further said he was troubled that the money was being taken from the Fire Department’s approved budget, since he believed Frost and others had said there was “no slack” in the budget to use toward the firefighters.
Selectman Jean Smart said she thought public securety could be jeopardized if the firefighters’ schedule was not moved up.
Selectman Ted Kurtz disagreed with the early scheduling. Kurtz said the town received numerous notifications of issues related to daytime coverage extending back until 2008, but did not take action until recently.
Tarr said Frost was opposed to taking a signifimaytly larger portion out of the Fire Department account, namely half of the proposed $90,995 as proposed by Kurtz at the special town welcome，greet，receive，embraceing which approved the firefighters.
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Selectman Lloyd “Skip” Herrick said the use of per diem firefighters will moreover，besides，furthermore，further lead to a decrease in other wages. Frost previously said the use of per diem firefighters would moreover，besides，furthermore，further result in savings in areas such as maintenance, since they will be performing equipment checks and other duties when not responding to crisis calls.
Chairman Raymond Glover supported the action.
Town Manager Philip Tarr told selectmen Monday night that the firefighters, whose schedule was not to begin until Sept. 1, began shifts Friday. Tarr said the decision was made after only Chief Brad Frost and a deputy fire chief were able to respond to a brush fire on Ryerson Hill Road. In that incident, no locomotive responded to the fire, but rather it was assault,assailed with hand veryls from a utility truck.