I was trying to figure out how a Fire and Rescue contract might be worked out with Kitty Hawk. Would they be able to meet or beat the SSVFD price of service.
Currently, the SSVFD budget represents a tiny bit less than $0.02 of the TOSS $0.975 tax rate, but let's round that out to a solid $0.02. Which would generate approximately $300,000.00 for the budget(current budget $292,000.00).
Based on the figures I found on the Town of Kitty Hawk website, it appears that the KHFD represents around $0.04(.0421)of the town's $0.18 tax rate. One advantage, though, would be that KHFD does have it's own Ocean Rescue service which could be extended I presume at that rate.
The TOSS contract for the Life Guard Beach Service this year was $128,000.00 .
Now, I'm certain our Town Council would want to keep it as close as possible to current expenses or less, but this isn't looking too good so far.
I guess the KH Town Manager could set a lower price, but I think the KH taxpayers would want to be assured they were not subsidising the TOSS taxpayers. They might even think KH should make some thing off of the deal. Wouldn't you if the situation was reversed?
Let's see, up to $600,000.00 as compared to $420,000.00. Do I need to do the rest of the of the math?
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