Valley Center studies five fire-service options after county ends aid agreements
City staff presented five options — keep the department, recruit volunteers, pursue regional aid, scale up municipal service, or join Sedgwick County Fire District 1 — and said terminating automatic and mutual aid requires faster planning; bolstering to 24/7 would raise the town's mill levy and require a one-time cash infusion.
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City officials laid out five options for Valley Center's fire services at a packed council meeting held after Sedgwick County notified the city that some automatic and mutual aid agreements would be terminated.
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