Tuesday, June 15, 2021

FY2021 budget - Harwich Mass

https://www.harwich-ma.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3236/f/uploads/fy_21_proposed_budget_document.pdf

PD staffing - 7 Dispatch + 2 Detectives + 5 Sergeants + 24 cops + more

FD staffing - 4 Captains + 1 Deputy Chief + 1 EMS Officer + 1 Chief +
24 firefighters + 1 Inspector + 4 Lieutenants + 1/2 a secretary

FY 2022 - will buy a quint for $1.4 million - will pay it off at
$100,000 per year approx

FD budget is - $3.8M salary and wages - plus - $450,000 expenses -
plus - (maybe health insurance and pension costs)

ambulance revenue is $1.6 M - (so approx 38% of FD budget is covered
by billing insurance companies for ambulance runs)

Fire incidents - 2017 - 4,000 - 2018 - 5,000 - EMS incidents - both
years - level at 2,600 - (why did fire runs shoot up by 20% after
being level for 10 years?)

Harwich has 1,300 fire hydrants

At the Annual Report page on the town website - the latest Annual
Report is from 2016 iirc - unknown why no new reports are listed -
iirc it is a state law that a Annual Report be published every year

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