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The board unanimously approved $7,500 from its contingency funds for fire department recruitment and retention initiatives. The departments also received a grant that will require matching funds, which will come from the Reserve Grant Match line.
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The funding will support efforts to recruit and keep fire department members. Recent outreach brought in about 15 new members across three departments, but about 15 members were also lost, leaving overall membership unchanged. The board is considering whether to divide the recruitment and retention committee into two subcommittees that would continue reporting to the board as one committee.
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