On Tuesday the Kern County Board of Supervisors will give the Kern County Fire Department a $14 million dollar payday loan. Fire Chief Brian Marshall said he has more than $15 million in reimbursement money that hasn’t been paid by state and federal fire agencies to Kern County for staff and equipment used last year to fight fires and natural disasters. And until he gets that money he’s in a financial pickle. “I’m at the end of the year and I haven’t got the money that’s owed to me and I don’t have the money to make payroll,” Marshall said. All those firefighters have to get paid. So the loan is needed to get the fire department through the rest of the fiscal year, which ends June 30.