PORT ANGELES – Property owners within the Clallam 3 Fire District, which covers the area from Gardiner to Deer Park Road, you’ll be asked in November to renew the existing Emergency Medical Services levy for another ten years.
The ballot measure was approved by the District’s board members last week.
As Assistant Chief Dan Orr tells us, the renewal of this levy is not meant to improve services, just to maintain what we already have.
“That’s exactly right. This is just for Emergency Medical Services. Again, it’s a renewal of a levy this will be the… I think it’s the second time we’ve done a renewal. Currently, the levy sits at about 45 cents per thousand. So it would go back to 50 cents per thousand. First year the levy would be collected would be 2021, and this money is important because it represents twenty six percent of the revenue collected annually by the fire district. If this doesn’t pass, it’s a 26% hit to our total revenue stream, which is going to have some pretty significant implications, including people, if this doesn’t go down the road.”