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• Amount to be raised by taxes: $43,353,794
<br /> Report of the
<br /> • Total Debt: $1,662,742 Fire & Rescue Department
<br /> The Finance Committee projects no increase in
<br /> the municipal tax rate of$9.11 per$1,000 of assessed
<br /> property value. To the Honorable Board of Selectmen and the
<br /> Citizens of the Town of Mashpee:
<br /> In January 2014, Mashpee's bond rating was
<br /> upgraded to the highest possible level of"AAA" by On behalf of the members of the Mashpee Fire&
<br /> Standard & Poor's which as stated in their report was Rescue Department,it is my honor to submit our report
<br /> due to high-end new growth,strong management,and for calendar year 2015.
<br /> reserves.
<br /> Our Mission
<br /> Finally, volunteer service to a community is a "The Mission of the Mashpee Fire & Rescue
<br /> desirable and essential component of municipal Department is to minimize loss and suffering within our
<br /> government. Any resident of Mashpee that has community. We accomplish this by education,training,
<br /> questions for the Finance Committee,please e-mail the and the mitigation of emergency incidents within the
<br /> Finance Committee at fincom@mashpeema.gov, or limit of available resources."
<br /> through the Town web-site: www.mashpeema.gov.
<br /> Personnel
<br /> You may also write to us at: Mashpee Finance As your Fire Chief, I am proud to work with
<br /> Committee, 16 Great Neck Road North,Mashpee,MA thirty-six full-time and two part-time highly-qualified
<br /> 02649. and dedicated employees. Their work to accomplish
<br /> the mission of this Department represents a 24-hour a
<br /> Finance Committee meetings take place, as day, 7-day a week commitment to the citizens we
<br /> needed,on Thursday evenings and are usually televised proudly serve.
<br /> on the local community station—Channel 18.
<br /> As of December 31,2015,the current authorized
<br /> Respectfully submitted, strength of the Department was thirty-six operational
<br /> Christopher Avis,Chairman members (4 captains,4 lieutenants, 24 firefighters, 1
<br /> David J. DelPonte, Vice Chairman fire prevention/inspector, 1 call firefighter, 1 Fire Chief,
<br /> Thomas F. Murphy, Clerk 1 Deputy Fire Chief, plus 2 non-operational members
<br /> Oskar H. Klenert (1 Administrative Secretary and 1 Billing Clerk) for a
<br /> Theresa M.Cook total of thirty-eight members.
<br /> Michael Richardson
<br /> George Schmidt (resigned May 2015) Over the past year,the Fire Department has hired
<br /> Jeffrey Pettengill (appointed Dec 2015) two candidates from an existing list to complete
<br /> departmental full staffing. Firefighter/Paramedic Scott
<br /> Thomas,a resident of Sandwich,joined the Department
<br /> on February 23, 2015 and Firefighter Matt Spears, a
<br /> resident of Bourne,joined the Department on March
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<br /> 24,2015.
<br /> Operations
<br /> During 2015, our Fire & Rescue Department
<br /> responded to 3,616 emergency incidents,compared to
<br /> x 3,233 responses in 2014. This represents over an
<br /> 11.5% increase in calls for service from 2014. We
<br /> responded to 2,409 Emergency Medical calls with
<br /> 1,270 of those qualified as Advance Life Support
<br /> (ALS) calls. This represents a 10% increase in
<br /> Advance Life Support(ALS)calls for 2015.
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