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Former Fire District 12 chief Mike [Brown speaks to Mason County Fire District 12 commissioners during public comment at the regular meeting Dec. 27 in Matlock.‘JournaI photo Matt Baide Fire 12: Anger simmers continued from page about it and it’s illegal to pay her af- ter she’s fired. So they’ve been paying her the whole year, there’s so many things.” Brown pointed out the fire district did not host a budget hearing open to the public before passing it at‘a spe- cial meeting Nov. 30. “There’s no legal arm to hold these people accountable,” Mike Brown said. “I want to talk to my senator because the state needs to look at putting something out so if this hap- v pens to some other district in the fu— ture, somebody can stop it. Right now, they’re just bleeding the taxpayers’ money. It’s terrible. They bought an ambulance, a second ambulance, they didn’t need 'it. We do not transport and even if we did transport, you can transport with the one we have.” . Brown said that no other fire de- partments in Mason County want to work with Fire District 12 because of fire chief Walswo'rth. “They’re acting surprised. We know more than they do,” Brown said. “That is terrible and it’s all open public re- cords. I’ve tried to talk to commission» er Pais several times. We had been out two years, clear out to'2020, we were still getting calls from vendors because these guys hadn’t paid for a year, they’re a year behind. I call com- missioner Pais and tell him.” ' Fire District 12 is looking for a new chief while Walsworth remains the chief but is not paid a salary as of Sunday. The commissioners reported one person applied for the fire chief posi- tion, but they pulled themselves out of the rlmning. This is not true, accord- ing to Greg Schroder, the person who applied to be fire chief. Schroder sent an email applying for the position of , fire chief on Sept. 26. After not receiving a reply, Schro- der followed up on his application'on Oct. 25 with another email. He re- ceived a reply to his email application from the admin@mcfd12.com on Oct. 25, stating “received, thank you.” n “I already knew about the FD 12 mess with the financials and all the problems they were in and I thought, well, this would be a good opportunity. It would tell me how clean they are,” Schroder told the Journal. “If they reached out for a lifeline, get a new chief in there, and if you were clean, you could switch it around and it could be a misunderstanding or this or that. It could be an experience and this thing could have blown away. They didn’t do that. I truly believe they flew the position just not to hire it.” Schroder said he attended the com-‘ munity meeting in December and met some community members. “The only thing I can report on is my dealings with them, that they re— sponded back to my email, my appli— cation and I’m still waiting to hear,” Schroder said. “As far as them reach- ing out to me or telling me I didn’t qualify, I know I would qualify. I’ve been in the‘fire service for 33 years.” Schroder’s 33 years of experience began in 1979 as a seasonal firefighter for the California Department of For- estry. His most recent fire service was . as battalion chief and training officer for the Wilton Fire Protection District in Wilton, California. He, said he is still interested in.being the fire chief . of Fire District 12. . V “They need to hire who they need to hire, but on the other side, if you’ve got'people applying for a position, you need to interview for the position and since you did receive and acknowledge their application, you should probably at least do a phone interview,” Schrod- er said. “They haven’t even done that.” Brown said the community» asked if he would step back into the role of chief, so the residents of Fire District 12 have options for a new fire chief. “The whole thing is out of control. They need to step down, they need to let the public have their department back,” Brown said. “They wouldn’t let anybody in until 2 o’clock. That is so unsatisfactory. This is not their fire department. They work for the people of this district. That is their bosses.” Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023 — Shelton-Mason County Journal Page 11 We deliver 0, Maul NORTHWEST. 3051!, me. " lllYllllI rowni uunnnv Maw 09:! OPEN MONDAY-FRIDAY, 7AM-4PM Siaie Conn. Reg. 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