Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Budgeting and Service Delivery


The Belmont Fire Protection District relies on tax money to carry out its services.  It receives money from the residents of Belmont through property taxes.  The money is consistent.  It is a long process to cut the funding to the fire department, so it remains reliable and consistent.  It is an easy process to collect property taxes.   In addition, it is weed out who is not paying.  People have to live somewhere, and the housing turn over rate is not very high in communities like Belmont, so the money stays pretty dependable.  Also, because they are a fire protection district and not just a normal fire department they are subject to more money by the state.  They also dispose of hazardous waste for the twenty-one surrounding cities, so they get more revenue because of that.  Other organizations do not depend on the Belmont Fire Protection District for money because they do not make any.  They use the money that is allocated to them to render services to the Belmont community.

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