Lol. No that's not what I meant. My point was that sometimes it seems like the departments are living high on the hog but there is more to it. Someone on here said once " when things don't make sense, it means you don't have all the info, which is why you asked the question on the first place. In my county we now have an emergency management/ homeland security person. He drives a provided vehicle and does, umm, stuff. Actually he does do some organizing of equipment, write grants, and coordinate between departments. I'm not sure how necessary the job is but he does work at it. Perhaps what you are seeing is an example of the FEMA/ Homeland Security push, but I don't agree with driving it to work unless it is a personal vehicle. Most license plates will either say "official" or be a standard plate so that may help shed some light on whether it is a personal or government vehicle.
As far as there being more to the story, someone else posted about government grants and overbuilding and just to illustrate what CAN go on. When we were in the process to build a new fire hall for ourselves about 5 years ago we looked into grants. We discovered that the biggest grant opportunity was through the USDA. The issue that we ran into was this. We could build a 60×100 fire hall the way we wanted for about $225,000 (which is what we ended up with) or if we got the government grants and jumped through all the hoops and followed all their guidelines we could have the same (essentially) fire hall for close to $500,000. If we took their money we had to play by their rules which included things like an engineers stamp on a set of plans from a neighboring towns firehall and other requiremeets that didn't fit our needs.
In the end we talked to one of the owners of Liteform who grew up locally and he gave us an awesome deal on the Styrofoam forms. Since I had just gone into business for myself as an electrician I got the bid (for cost) and with the help of 2 other electricians on the department donating nights and weekends we wired it for a good price. The concrete flatwork was done by another member of the department. A painter friend of mine donated the labor to paint. It was all paid for by private donations and a grant from a private local foundation who generously donated about $80,000, a local feedlot who promised I believe $10,000 a year for 5 years, many locals who were having good times with $7 corn, and quite a few fundraisers. One issue we had was that the laws had just changed the year we built and we had to put in a sprinkler system, to the tune of over $30,000. We put in a small kitchen but since we would need a commercial exhaust hood if we used a range we just put in 2 wall ovens saving about $10,000.
Like I said sometimesthings are required and once you start down the road you have to comply and get more than you want or need. Like buying a new puckup, I just want a club cab, v-8, civil seats and floor, and an AM radio. However I have to buy power windows, CD player, power mirrors, heated steering wheel lol just because that's my only choice.
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