Advisory committee recommends municipal services levy to align unincorporated funding with cities

Vice Chair presented a memorandum proposing that Cache County impose a municipal services levy on unincorporated areas so those residents roughly match city residents' contributions for fire and EMS. He said the committee is only recommending the number to the fire board, which would advise the county council; the county council has authority to impose the levy.

The vice chair suggested using a conservative estimate and proposed a "not more than" amount to give the county a cap for planning. He described his computation as roughly $716,000 and recommended a rounded figure of $750,000 as the value to insert into the recommendation. "SOAC recommends that that levy should be set at a level sufficient to raise the amount of not more than, my computation was it would be about $716,000... and my recommendation is we we fill in that blank with 750,000," he said. The committee later moved and passed a resolution forwarding the recommendation to the Cache Fire Protection District and ultimately to the county.