Elmwood Township officials are in talks to join Cedar Area Fire and Rescue (CAFR), an emergency services department that already covers four townships in Leelanau County.
Township Supervisor Jeff Shaw and the township’s fire chief, Keith Tampa, started the conversation with CAFR some time before the Elmwood Township board’s Oct. 8 meeting. But before Elmwood can join this multi-township department, they’ll need to decide what their share of the costs will be.
“We’ll see where that discussion goes, and obviously there’s a lot of moving parts with something like that. But it would probably be the best thing for everybody in the area as far as taking care of people. The biggest thing is figuring out who pays what, and how it’s calculated, based on run volume, or population, or assessment – all that stuff,” Shaw said.
