I am concerned about the way recent disagreements between Hempfield Township supervisors and the volunteers who run the Adamsburg station of the Hempfield Volunteer Fire Department were handled by the supervisors.
Initially, the supervisors had planned to spend over $1 million in new taxpayer funds on a new station without fully consulting the very volunteers who will be staffing and operating it. Eventually, the supervisors relented and met with the volunteers, but only after much noise was made by the volunteers. Really? It shouldn’t have had to come to that.
The supervisors should have known better than to ignore the very people who operate the station for the township. That’s not what I would call leadership, and poor leadership ultimately drives away people who would otherwise want to volunteer to operate the stations.
Kevin R. Astley
Adamsburg