Now There's a Proposed Mosquito Fire Tax Increase of $1,000/year!

Read this for yourself — the agenda item for Thursday’s MFPD board meeting pushes a big new tax instead of a real plan for shared services that could actually strengthen our fire and EMS.

Director Bill Buhnerkempe should be pouring his energy into securing a shared services agreement that boosts staffing, leadership, and reliability, not asking residents to pay more for the same shaky system and less value.

With past tax hikes rejected and millions in grant dollars failing to deliver stable staffing, why is a new tax being rushed ahead of a transparent, fully explained shared services plan?

Take a hard look at the proposed 1,000‑dollar‑per‑parcel, per‑year increase below — and the redlined comments on Director Buhnerkempe’s proposal — and decide for yourself if this is the direction Mosquito should be going.