District Reports and Plans
View Berthoud Fire's Annual Report for 2024:
Archived annual reports are viewable below:
Priority Based Budgeting continues to be the process utilized by the Berthoud Fire Protection District (BFPD) to assure that resources are directed toward programs that best achieve the delivery of professional and quality services to our community. The BFPD has focused its business practices to create fiscal health while sustaining and/or improving our Insurance Services Office Public Protection Classification which is a direct reflection on our quality of service.
The underlying philosophy of priority-driven budgeting is about how a government entity should invest resources to meet its stated objectives. If helps us to better articulate why the services we offer exist, what price we pay for them, and consequently, what value they offer citizens. The principles associated with this philosophy of budgeting are:
- Prioritize Services.
- Do the Important Things Well. Cut back on the Rest.
- Question Past Patterns of Spending.
- Spend Within the Organization’s Means.
- Know the True Cost of Doing Business.
- Provide Transparency of Community Priorities.
- Provide Transparency of Service Impact.
- Demand Accountability for Results.
In 2023, the District contracted with Emergency Services Consulting International (ESCI) to complete a new strategic plan. With input from command staff as well as the entire membership, the updated strategic plan was finalized in July of 2023.
2025 Impact Fee Study
Recognizing best practice of reviewing impact fees every 3-7 years, BFPD has recently completed a new nexus (impact fee) study, conducted by BBC Research & Consulting. The updated impact fees are based on a comprehensive analysis of the projected growth within our service area and the necessary fire department resources needed to serve that growth.
The Board of Directors will conduct a public hearing on its intent to establish and assess Impact Fees and adopt the Impact Fees Schedule on August 12, 2025, at 3:00p.m., at which time the Board anticipates taking final action to establish Impact Fees and adopt the Impact Fees Schedule.
2025 Impact Fee Study
Public Safety Fairness Act
In 2016, the Colorado Legislature passed HB1088 known as the Public Safety Fairness Act. The bill authorizes the board of directors of a fire protection district to impose an impact fee on the construction of new buildings, structures, facilities, or improvements, on previously improved or unimproved real property, if the impact fee is:
- Reasonably related to the overall cost of the fire protection district's services; and
- Imposed in accordance with a fee schedule that is legislatively adopted by the board and that applies to all
Berthoud Fire 2018 Impact Fee Study
In 2018, the Board of Directors adopted an impact fee schedule and formed agreements with Larimer County and the Town of Berthoud to collect those impact fees, which collection occurs when building permits are issued for new structures.
You may view BFPD's current impact fees by viewing our adopted fee schedule:
Berthoud Fire Consolidated Fee Schedule