Add the Lebanon Fire District to the growing list of vendors and providers who haven’t been paid for their services at the Bi-Mart Willamette Country Music Festival, held over four days in August near Brownsville.
Chief Gordon Sletmoe said Thursday that the district invoiced Willamette Country Music Concerts $45,377 for providing 55 staff persons who worked a total of 741 hours and provided 24/7 coverage from Thursday until Monday of the event.
That included coverage by assisting crews from Corvallis and Jefferson fire departments, plus “a number of apparatus,” Sletmoe said.
“We have yet to get anything from them,” he said. “We have had shoestring communications and we have been told they are working on it. But, we understand there is only one employee working for Willamette Country Music Concerts and she is reporting to someone else.”