Southold Town’s six fire districts will hold public hearings tonight on their proposed 2017 operating budgets.
State law mandates fire districts to hold public hearings on proposed budgets for the coming fiscal year on the third Tuesday of October.
The law requires the fire districts to file their proposed budgets with the town clerk.
According to documents filed by the districts with Southold Town Clerk Elizabeth Neville, the proposed budgets for 2017 are as follows:
Fishers Island Fire District
$400,100 appropriated and to be raised by property taxes
Mattituck Fire District
$1,932,955.61 appropriated and to be raised by property taxes
Cutchogue Fire District
$1,495,655 appropriated and to be raised by property taxes
Southold Fire District
$1,344,300 appropriated and to be raised by property taxes
East Marion Fire District
$609,636.52 appropriated
$100,000 drawn from reserves
$509,436.52 to be raised by property taxes
Orient Fire District
$687,445 appropriated
$ 56,200 in revenues from cell tower income
$631,245 to be raised by property taxes
There was great variance in the amount of additional information filed by each district with the clerk’s office.
Each district will hold its public hearing before the district commissioners at their respective fire department headquarters beginning at 7 p.m. this evening, except Orient, where the hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
