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Delhi Township Fire Department
"Protecting Your Tomorrows Today"
Celebrating 75 Years of Proud Service
The Delhi Township Fire Department provides a comprehensive level of emergency and public safety services. We serve a community of over 30,000 residents in an area of just 10.5 square miles. Our department ranks in the top five departments for call volume in Hamilton County with a total of 3,131 calls in 2008 - another 6% increase over 2007. We are staffed to provide paramedic level treatment and transport 365 days a year with a minimum of two ambulances.
Public Service Announcement
The Fire Department is now in its sixth year of a five year levy. Here are some of the factors that helped manage expenses to extend the life of the current levy while still providing the best service to Delhi Township.
The 2011 fire budget is 83.6% personnel, 14% operating costs, and 2.3% discretionary costs.
1. Restructured the departments organization to save $117,000 in year one by eliminating the Battalion Chief position and additional $100,000 in year two by not replacing the fire inspector. That savings is continued as we have not replaced those two fulltime positions.
2. Gained better control of HVAC systems at the 3 stations. Gas expenses avg. only 1-3% increases annually, while we were able to decrease electric expenses by 5-9% annually. In fact our electric costs were $9,000 less in 2010 than it was in 2007 at the Neeb Rd station.
3. Tightened uniform policies and changed to a more serviceable uniform and reduced the expense line by $15,000 annually.
4. The Township hired certified mechanics and this placed all apparatus on service and maintenance schedules accounting for overall fleet savings. Vehicles would only get service when they went in for a repair. Today all are on maintenance schedules and costly repairs have dramatically been reduced.
5. Created a capital replacement schedule through 2023 so the Board can more realistically predict large capital expenses, such as an ambulance purchase or engine replacement.
6. The fire departments overtime budget is less than 1% of the wage expense and less than ½ of 1% of the total operating budget.
7. Fire Department secured grants to replace the protective clothing, construct a computer based ICS simulator, advance firefighter and officer training, and replace aging cardiac monitors totaling $290,000. This is all savings to the taxpayer.
These savings have allowed the fire department to pay back the $100,000 Tax Incremental Financing loan that was used to reopen the Greenwell and Rapid Run fire stations earlier after firefighters were laid off in November 2004. The fire department is free and clear to move forward without the additional burden of paying back the loan long term.
