MEASURE NO. 24-120

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Summary: The Aurora Fire District presently has one full-time employee and a part time Fire Chief. The rest of the responders are volunteers. In the past most of these volunteers were either local farmers that could respond during the day, or local business people that were available during the day. Times have changed and there are not as many farmers available in our area, and most of our citizens now work out of our area and are not available during the day time hours. This along with more calls of service and heavy growth has put a burden on our Fire District for daytime volunteers. If this local option tax is approved it will allow us to fund the positions necessary to provide safe staffing levels for emergency calls. If approved the proposed rate would provide approximately $218,400 in 2005-2006, $224,952 in 2006-2007, $231,700 in 2007-2008, $238,651 in 2008-2009, and $245,811 in 2009-2010 for a total of approximately $1,159,514.