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Wellington council backs Palm Beach County Fire Rescue bill to protect MSTU services
Summary
After a presentation by county fire chiefs, the Wellington Village Council unanimously passed a resolution supporting a local bill designed to preserve the county's MSTU fire-rescue service footprint and make it harder for annexations to transfer service to a municipality without local agreement.
The Wellington Village Council voted unanimously Nov. 12 to back a Palm Beach County Fire Rescue bill intended to protect the county's Municipal Service Taxing Unit (MSTU) fire-rescue service area from being shifted by annexation without coordinated local agreement.
Chief Patrick Kennedy of Palm Beach County Fire Rescue told the council the bill is not intended to bar municipal annexation but to ensure that, "if we currently service that area, we would continue to service that area unless the local council for that municipality and the board of county commissioners got together and agreed upon who would be…
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