Proposition 1 for Fire District 4 asks the people for six more years of levy money. They want us to vote yes, to continue the existing levy.
So here we go again. Fire District 4 tells us, should it fail, we all will feel the hurt. Examples given are longer response time, lay-offs, closure of a station. But which? Some of the same reasons were used in 2012. And again in 2013 for the purchase of two new fire trucks. The 2013 levy failed. Did anyone notice a longer response time, using the old trucks? Should this new levy fail, will anyone notice a change in the current service levels?
The argument for a yes vote, states this levy is not a new tax. Wrong. The present levy/tax expires Dec. 31. It’s gone, it’s done. So how can Proposition 1 not be new tax?
Bruce A. Ferguson
Snohomish
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