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ALPENA TOWNSHIP Last year, the Alpena Township Board of Trustees began its fiscal year with a balanced budget, and it hopes to repeat that accomplishment this budget cycle.
Matching revenues to expenses may prove more difficult this year, however, as uncertainty on state revenue sharing could impact the township’s general fund.
Another financial hurdle may be the unknown cost of rebuilding the township’s fire department, which makes the public safety fund budget murky now. The department is woefully understaffed and the township has contracted the Alpena Fire Department to help fill in the gaps.
The township began this fiscal year with estimated general fund revenue of $1.7 million and expenses of $1.7 million. It started the fiscal year with $913,638 in its general fund savings account.
Allison Needles: New fire station near LNG plant on Tacoma Tideflats could sit empty when completed in 2021
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 12/17/2020 Allison Needles, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Dec. 17 Construction of a new fire station on Tacoma s Tideflats near Puget Sound Energy s liquefied natural gas facility is slated to be completed in early 2021.
There might be no fire engine to fill it.
Tacoma City Council passed an overall $3.7 billion 2021-22 budget in November that takes one engine out of commission due to a change in operations by the Fire Department to offset a deficit stemming from COVID-19 impacts.
Tacoma Fire Department identified Engine 5 to be taken out of service starting April 2021. Engine 5 serves Central Tacoma and the Tideflats and is currently housed in Station 6 at 1015 E. F St.