{"id":25676,"date":"2025-09-18T04:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=25676"},"modified":"2025-09-18T04:29:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:29:50","slug":"brick-fire-commissioner-salaries-set-for-2025-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2025\/09\/brick-fire-commissioner-salaries-set-for-2025-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick Fire Commissioner Salaries Set for 2025-26"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A fire heavily damaged two homes on Bay Way in Brick Township, N.J., Sept. 27, 2021. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Salaries for Brick Township fire commissioners will largely remain steady for the 2025-26 term, with one exception, the township council confirmed last week. Brick Township is home to three fire districts, which control the budgets of the fire companies that are located within their geographic areas of operation in town. For the last four years, a state statute has required municipal councils to effectively ratify the stipends or salaries earned by the commissioners; this year\u2019s resolution was passed unanimously by the council last week.<\/p>\n

Though the township maintains all-volunteer fire companies, commissioners are elected each February and hold public meetings that determine the budget for the fire service as a whole, which includes a staff that performs inspections, sets policies and determines budgetary matters. The total compensation for commissioners as a whole has been reduced in recent years through some professional reorganization, though some commissioners have seen a small increase in their annual stipend. Brick has three fire districts and a Joint Board of Fire Commissioners.<\/p>\n

The fire commissioners for district one and two receive a flat annual stipend of $8,000 for serving on the board. Fire District Three has a slightly different salary structure since one of its commissioners performs the role that the other districts hire an employee to fill. The only increase in stipends this year was in District Three, where four of the five commissioners will now earn $8,000 per year, up from $6,500. This brings those commissioners in line with the same salaries as those with the other two districts.<\/p>\n

In all, 14 out of Brick\u2019s 15 fire commissioners will now receive a stipend of $8,000. In District Three, there is one exception in which the treasurer is paid a salary of $19,500. This is because of the fact that the treasurer in this district performs a role that the other districts hire an employee to fill.<\/p>\n

Fire District One spans the southern-most half of the Township, from the Toms Rivder Township border, north and west to the Lakewood border. It also covers just over a mile of oceanfront area, bordered by Mantoloking on the north and Toms River on the south. Fire District Two comprises the central portion of the Township, north and east of the Metedeconk River and Forge Pond, southwest of the Point Pleasant Borough border. Fire District Three covers the northernmost section of the town, bordered by Fire District #2 to the south, the Howell and Wall township borders to the north, and the Wall and Brielle borders to the east.<\/p>\n

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Salaries for Brick Township fire commissioners will largely remain steady for the 2025-26 term, with one exception, the township council confirmed last week. Brick Township is home to three fire districts, which control the budgets of the fire companies that are located within their geographic areas of operation in town. For the last four years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[24,4484,4540],"class_list":["post-25676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-fire-commissioners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/brick_bay_way_fire_sept_2021_092-scaled.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6G8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25677,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25676\/revisions\/25677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}