Is this the first step in privatizing the public sector ?
or
Just another set of pols trying to pick taxpayers pockets ?
The short piece doesn't seem to explain why there is a budget shortfall, but one can assume many things.
When I was a member of the local volunteer fire department, we routinely billed the insurance companies for time when called out for traffic accidents, house fires, etc. We'd actually get checks from over half of them. Our policy was bill'em, and if we get anything great - that means we keep the doors open another month or gas in the trucks. If we don't, then hey, we don't.