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With an uncertain financial future highlighted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Mehlville Fire Protection District has a deficit budget for the first time in many years. The MFPD Board of Directors unanimously passed a $24.18 million budget for 2021 that has a $1.41 million deficit.
“Not a lot went our way when developing this budget, so you’re going to see kind of a recurring theme and that’s that ‘Hey, that didn’t go our way,’” said Chief Financial Officer Brian Bond at the Dec. 23 board meeting.
The fire district may have some tough financial challenges ahead, the CFO noted.
“While many factors worked against the 2021 budget, the good news is that residents of the district are receiving an enhanced level of service. 2022 will be a reassessment year which will hopefully provide additional tax revenue,” Bond said. “But it’s important for us to note that future budgets will be faced with similar challenges. Unfortunately the level of expenses we’re at,
ordinary metal, it s tin, it s just what the modern world needs and cornwall has a lot of it. our mia del santos takes us there. reporter: cornwall s tin coast, rich in minerals and mines. an industrial legacy which could soon be reborn thanks to big tech and brexit. tin has been extracted from the rock and otherwise rural part of the uk for a millennium. in the late 1870s and these engine houses were originally built, cornwall has the world s biggest producer of tin, home to 2,000 mines dotted across its countryside. the last of those south crofty closed its doors two decades ago after tin prices plunged. but now it could be the first to reopen, creating 275 jobs. and that journey towards cornwall s mining revival begins
9/11 as well. reporter: that s right. actually, wolf, talking about that firehouse, engine 54, actually that s where i was on 9/11, and i remember i attended a press conference and the fire commissioner had come out and you could tell, his eyes were completely red and glassy. he came out and he said that 343 firefighters had been lost and nobody knew how new york city was ever going to be able to recover from that. and immediately we started going to engine houses all around the city and there was a sense of waiting and at engine 54, where the president is right now, i stood outside there. family members had begun to gather. i remember them closing the shades. the cars they had driven that day were standing out on the streets and there was this odd, it wasn t even odd, it was this white powder. it was debris from ground zero that had actually blown up more than 54 blocks. we re talking about three miles.