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Collin County outlines who is inside proposed Emergency Services District after several cities decline ETJ inclusion
Summary
Collin County Commissioners Court discussed the proposed Emergency Services District and city consents for their extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJs), with staff warning residents in excluded ETJs could lose county-provided fire and EMS coverage unless their city provides service or they opt out.
Collin County Commissioners Court discussed the proposed Emergency Services District and an administrative update on city consents to include extraterritorial jurisdictions (ETJs) at its April 28 meeting.
County staff told the court that the cities that have consented to include their ETJs in the ESD are Blue Ridge, Celina, Farmersville, Fate, Josephine, "Lebonne" (as listed in the staff update), Lowry Crossing, McKinney, Melissa, Murphy, Nevada, Princeton, Weston, Wylie and Royce City. Cities that have definitively declined were listed as Frisco, Lucas, St. Paul and Van Alstyne. The county said Anna, New Hope, Parker and Prosper remained in the process of deciding and that Allen, Garland, Hebron and Trenton had not responded. The staff update was given by a county staff member identified in the record as Mr. Kim.
The court and staff warned that residents who live inside a city's ETJ that does not consent will be ineligible to vote in the ESD election and, if the ESD is…
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