Some cities in Pulaski County want a bigger piece of the state pie for their fire departments. Each city and volunteer fire department got the same amount of money from a one time state funding disbursement last year. And large cities like Little Rock say it should have been based on population instead.

We're talking about a one time disbursement of nearly $180,000 as part of state Act 884. The intergovernmental council made of city and county leaders agreed to split the money evenly last summer. But Little Rock's mayor says that meeting conflicted with another big meeting and a lot of people didn't get to weigh in.

Oak Grove Fire Department covers 50 square miles with a volunteer staff. In Oak Grove they have to operate 3 fire stations with at least 4 trucks a piece and pay 5 employees all on a budget of about $236,000. That's a tough task.

The $7,000 they got from Act 884 helped pay for repairs to their rescue trucks. It's money they'd be hard pressed to find anywhere else.

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