Reporting delay could’ve been costly for Stewart Fire Relief

A lapse in the Stewart Fire Relief Association’s reporting as required by state statute nearly caused the association $14,014.21 in forfeited federal and state aid to firefighters’ pension fund.
Although the city didn’t lose the federal and state aid dollars, the city council agreed that it was an oversight that shouldn’t have taken place. Mayor Jason Peirce said they were talking about the issue at the council’s February 2020 meeting to give closure to the issue.
In November 2019, the OSA sent then Stewart City Clerk Ronda Huls a letter advising the city that the volunteer firefighters’ relief association affiliated with the city did not fulfill statutory reporting requirements.

(For the complete story, see the Feb. 19 print edition of The Chronicle.)