Opt‑out parcels and McKinney contracts create potential coverage 'checkerboard,' county hears
County and ESD officials warned that parcels opting out of McKinney’s ETJ could be excluded from McKinney’s contract terms, producing gaps in fire/EMS coverage that the ESD would need to backfill; commissioners raised legal and logistical concerns about a patchwork or 'Swiss cheese' coverage pattern.
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Commissioners and Kevin McGillis, president of Emergency Services District No. 1, discussed a central operational challenge: city contracts with McKinney appear to exclude parcels that have opted out of the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ), which could leave scattered properties without predictable city response. McGillis explained that McKinney’s position is that if a parcel elects to leave the ETJ, it is not automatically included in a city contract. "So that's the disconnect," he said.
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