Public Information
The Board of Directors and the fire department management staff feel that with the fire department using tax funds to operate, the fire department’s interworking should be as transparent as possible. Even though the fire department was established as a non-profit fire department vs. a governmental agency, the board and management still strive to be completely transparent with the public. In order to facilitate such transparency, the following links will take you to documents and information about financial operations, management operations, and information about how to participate in Board meetings for this fire department. After viewing all the documents, feel free to attend the open meetings and ask any questions you may have about the fire department. You may also contact a Board member or the Fire Chief to give advice or ask additional questions.
Financial Information
This fire department was formed as a non-profit fire department that contracts with Lincoln County to provide emergency services to the citizens located within and passing through the fire district. This fire department is not a government agency, which means we are not required to abide by North Carolina open records laws. Despite that fact, the Board of Directors and fire department management find it necessary to provide the public with as much information as possible so that anyone interested in the financial and operational functions of their fire department can view this information with ease.
In order to make such information readily available to the public, the Board of Directors and fire department management have included their IRS Form 990s for the last (3) three years along with their IRS 1023 Form on this website page for review.
Board Members
The Board of Directors helps to provide administrative and fiscal oversight to our organization. Our Board consist of community members that give valuable time, effort, and energy to make sure that our administration and our department are responsible stewards of our community’s resources.
Regular meetings of the Board of Directors are scheduled for the 3rd Thursday of each month. Community members are invited and encouraged to attend. These meetings will be held at our Fire Stations on a rotating basis and the meeting will start at 7:00 p.m. Please check social media to see which station will be hosting our Monthly Meetings.
Leo McDonald
President
Carl Johnson
Vice President
Donald Temple
Treasurer
Harris Spence
Secretary
Melvin Yow
Director
Steve Worrell
Director
Harry Koerner
Director
Ernest Byrd
Director
R. H. Byrd
Director
ISO & NCRRS
The Summerville Bunnlevel Fire Department’s NCRRS rating is a respectable 4/9e split. This is the rating that will affect fire insurance ratings for landowners in the district. This breaks down into a rating of Class 3 for all areas within the fire district that are within 1,000 feet of a fire hydrant, a certified or a water point. Currently, all other areas outside the 1,000 feet from areas mentioned above fall into a Class 9 rating.
The North Carolina Response Rating System (NCRRS) is a division of the Department of Insurance (DOI). NCRRS inspects fire departments and grades them based on their resources and ability to fight structural fires. Administered and maintained by the Office of the State Fire Marshal, the NCRRS routinely inspects more than 1,300 North Carolina fire departments. It rates them based on their resources and ability to respond and extinguish structural fires against a uniform set of criteria that incorporate nationally recognized fire protection standards.
The NCRRS grading plan is required by law to be at least as stringent as the current one utilized by the Insurance Services Office (ISO), and the intent of the NCRRS is to make it as compatible as possible while keeping it usable and current. The NCRRS ratings range from a class 1 rated fire department (highest best possible rating) to a Class 10 rated fire department (not recognized as a certified fire department by the state- unprotected). Generally, the lower-class number a fire department receives the better prepared the fire department may be to respond to fires in its district. The better prepared a fire department is, the more likely it will have lower fire losses. The rating they receive may also affect the insurance rates in a fire district with higher ratings, thus providing cost savings.