As We Look for Additional Funding for the LMRFD We Need to Ask Why Would Anyone Want To Annex Into the LMRFD?

Why Would Anyone Annex Into the LMRFD When They Get the Same Services Now? We need to find how to induce people to annex into the fire district..

The LMRFD is 144 square miles while the ambulance CON, the area the LMRFD ambulance is 2200 square miles. The main part of the fire district is made up of two main parts, Dolan Springs and Meadview. The area between the two communities is confusing at best, it's outside the fire district but inside the CON.

The Meadview area especially Meadview City is more confusing being made up of a checkerboard of parcels in and outside the fire district. Whitehills is also outside the fire district along with all the parcels west of US93.

If the fire district want's people to annex into the fire district, don't we need to offer them something for their hundreds of dollars of increased property tax? 

Be Honest, would you annex into the fire district and raise your property taxes by $400 a year, if you get the same services now?

Map shows all Mohave County fire district boundaries, the big blue square is the Dolan Springs portion of the fire district and small blue area at the top is Meadview. You'll see the LMRFD is larger than all other fire districts in the county combined..

Map shows that the LMRFD CON requires our ambulance to respond all the way to Sage Tank in Coconino County. I don't when or how the LMRFD ambulance was given 2200 square miles to provide EMS services, but it needs to be reviewed and reduced to something more reasonable. 

As you can you can see you can't get there from here... It would take 6 1/2  hours for the ambulance to get from Dolan Springs to Sage Tank...