Monday, March 23, 2020

The Lake Mohave Ranchos Fire District is a Special Taxing District Do We Need a Vote?

The Lake Mohave Ranchos Fire District is a Special Taxing District

A fire district is a form of special district of the State, formed for the protection of persons and property (Arizona Revised Statutes – Title 48 – Special Taxing Districts). Special districts deliver only the public programs and public facilities that their constituents want. Cities provide multiple programs, some of them mandated by the federal and statement governments. 

Special districts provide focused service delivery throughout their boundaries providing a single service (i.e. emergency services) allowing them to concentrate and excel at that activity unlike municipalities which provide a variety of services throughout their boundaries. Special districts provide the public services that the public wants and localizes the costs and benefits of public services.
FROM the Arizona Fire & Medical Authority, the North County Fire & Medical District, and the South County Fire & Medical District web page..

Currently the LMRFD responds outside the 144 square mile fire district for fire calls leaving the people who pay tax to the fire district without fire or medical services.

If White Hills and the other areas outside the fire district want fire service join the LMRFD or start your own.

We have a lot of new property owners in the last few years.

We need to ask them if they want our firefighters responding outside the fire district?
We need an accounting of how many times the district gets paid for these out of district responses and how much we've been paid?



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