Voters in the Pacific Fire Protection District will chose a new member of the district’s Board of Directors in the April 7 election.
The current board chairman, Pat Andrae, has chosen not to run for another six-year term on the three-member board.
Andrae was first appointed to fill a vacancy on the board 10 years ago, then was elected to fill out that term before winning a full term in 2009.
She will be succeeded by either Edwin A. (Ed) Bruns or John Davis.
Bruns, 202 Candlewick Lane in Pacific, is seeking to return to the board. He served five terms, but was narrowly defeated in 2013 by Chris Wymer.
Chief Rick Friedmann said Bruns has been associated with the district nearly all his life, starting as a junior firefighter in his teens when it was the Pacific Volunteer Fire Department. He said the agency became a fire protection district in 1972.
Friedmann said Davis, 611 S. First St., Pacific, is a newcomer who has no previous association with the district.
The board chairman is paid $150 per meeting and the other two members are paid $100 per meeting. The board regularly meets once a month.
The district, which has a $2.5 million budget, has 19 full-time firefighters and reserve firefighters.
It has three stations, at 910 W. Osage St. in Pacific, 7376 Hwy. O in Robertsville and at 1601 Buscher Road off Hwy. F in JeffersonCounty. The first two stations are staffed around the clock, while reserve firefighters staff the Buscher Road location.
The district serves 78 square miles in Jefferson, Franklin and St. Louis counties.