Millcreek Township supervisors voted this morning to distribute Pennsylvania Volunteer Firefighters’ Relief Association funds equally among the township’s four designated fire departments.
Belle Valley, Kearsarge, West Lake and West Ridge will each receive about $68,628.80 from the $274,515.21 the township received this year, according to background information included with a statement from Belle Valley Fire Department President Dave Nientimp. The deadline to distribute the money is November 15.
At its October 15 meeting, the Fire and Emergency Medical Services Commission voted to recommend that the supervisors decertify Belle Valley as a designated fire department and limit the relief funds to the three departments that signed the 2024 agreement. The source material says the supervisors declined to take up those recommendations…