LOWER MERION — During a Lower Merion Finance Committee meeting, the committee recommended the Board of Commissioners adopt a resolution authorizing payments of the annual appropriations of $402,524 to each of Lower Merion’s six volunteer fire companies.
Adam Szumski, Lower Merion’s chief financial officer, outlined the details.
“This is an annual resolution authorizing the amounts budgeted to pay to the volunteer fire companies, subject to compliance with existing memorandums of understanding between the township and the six fire companies. We also reimburse them for their workers’ comp insurance premiums,” Szumski said.
Commissioner Scott Zelov expressed support for the township’s annual support for its fire companies.
“This is also something that was approved in the 2026 budget last month. It’s a demonstration of the considerable contribution and commitment by this board and by the township to our volunteer fire companies, of which we have six throughout the township,” Zelov said. “We are very fortunate that our volunteer, mostly volunteer, fire service protects our lives and our property, and we are generous in supporting them, and we also buy the apparatus, and we also separately make improvements when necessary to the fire houses that we do not own. The fire companies own those, but this is an important part of the demonstration of our support for our fire service.”
The commissioners are expected to provide a final vote on the payments at its next meeting.