The proposed budgets for the Fire Department and its ambulance service were reviewed by the City Council Monday.

The Fire Department budget proposal is $2,722,765. The ambulance budget proposal is $1,334,960.

The budgets are for the fiscal year that will begin July 1. State law requires cities to have their budgets completed by mid-March, so the council has been working on spending plans since December.

The fire and ambulance budgets do not envision major changes to operations.

The fire budget includes money to hire an instructor to conduct a technical rescue training class. It also has money to replace some protective clothing called turnout gear or bunker gear and some self-contained breathing apparatus.

Fire Chief Steve Hergenreter said the ambulance budget provides for removing the box which is the patient compartment from a 2014 model ambulance now in use and putting it on a new Ford chassis.

The budget also includes money for a new smaller ambulance that Hergenreter said would be used for long-distance transfers from Fort Dodge to hospitals in places like Des Moines and Iowa City. Buying that unit would give the department a total of six ambulances.

Council members did not recommend any changes to the proposed budgets.