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Commissioners consider updating fire service district resolutions to include EMS/rescue and explore single countywide district
Summary
Staff told the board older fire service‑district resolutions do not clearly authorize EMS and rescue uses of tax funds; commissioners asked staff to clean up language, explore whether to keep eight districts or move to a single countywide district, and return with maps, pros/cons and deadlines for required hearings.
County staff told the Board of Commissioners that some longstanding fire service‑district resolutions do not explicitly authorize the use of tax funds for EMS and rescue services even though departments now commonly provide those functions, and they urged the board to update the language.
Assistant County Manager David McNeal summarized the statutory framework and said the county’s existing resolutions—many adopted decades ago—often reference only fire protection. McNeal explained that North Carolina statute provides options to adopt or modify service‑district resolutions to permit ambulance, EMS or rescue services and to levy property taxes for those purposes, but the older…
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