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Funding and Budgets
Simple Steps for Ensuring Financial Transparency

The fire department is a taxpayer-funded service, and as such, taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent. Chief Marc Revere reviews the basics of sound financial practices and provides some tips on responding to information requests from the press and/or grand juries.
(Tuesday, June 4, 2013) read
Tags: budget, budgeting, checks and balances, financial transparency, freedom-of-information requests, funding, leadership skills, transparency, Management and Leadership
Management And Leadership
Double Duty?

After a recent incident in which a public safety officer was burned in a fire, a reader writes to Nozzlehead to debate whether public safety officers--who are cross-trained as both police and firefighters--really provide a public safety or whether this system should be avoided.
(Sunday, May 19, 2013) read
Tags: PSOs, public safety officers, Funding and Budgets
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Changes to 2013 Grant Programs

During a Congressional Fire Services Institute seminar on May 9, AFG program expert Catherine Patterson laid out the legal and policy changes brought about by the reauthorization of the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) program. She also provided the top three reasons grant applications are rejected.
(Friday, May 10, 2013) read
Tags: AFG, Assistance to Firefighters Grant, CFSI 2013, federal funding, Fire, grant, SAFER, sequestration, Funding and Budgets, Management and Leadership
Funding and Budgets
Fighting to Secure USFA Funding

Sequestration is just the latest in a long line of attacks on the funding of the U.S. Fire Administration. FireRescue Editor-in-Chief Tim Sendelbach argues that the fight for proper USFA funding is one that every firefighter and fire officer must take on.
(Friday, April 26, 2013) read
Tags: America Burning, budget, FIRE Act, funding, Grants, preparedness, SAFER, sequestration, Training, U.S. Fire Administration, USFA, Management and Leadership
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Cost-Effective Training Tips for the Small Department

In the fire service, training can’t stop just because there’s no money for fancy equipment or travel to conferences. Fire Chief Phil Oakes shares some strategies smaller departments have used to train members with little to no training budget.
(Friday, April 26, 2013) read
Tags: FDIC, FDIC 2013, Philip Oakes, small department, volunteer, Funding and Budgets, Training

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