Shoreline Fire RFA passing at a 2 to 1 rate
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
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| Photo courtesy King County Elections |
Prop 1, to combine Shoreline and Lake Forest Park into one department, has a 66% Yes vote and a 33% No vote.
The two departments have been operating as one, but this formalizes the consolidation.
Proposed Shoreline Fire Department
Regional Fire Authority
Ballots Counted: 12,670
* Registered Voters: 67,029
Proposition No. 1
- Yes 8,403 66.38%
- No 4,256 33.62%
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10 comments:
Shoreline and _Northshore_, thank you. (And Northshore was originally the Kenmore Fire Department on top of it.)
Good job passing to politicalize the fire departments. They already had an aggreement that had them working together, all this did was add politics to it. Edmonds did the same several years ago and are now trying to reverse it as it's not working for the citizens they way they wanted it to.
People in shoreline will vote yes on any tax proposal :(
I've lived in places where public services were parted out to each community, I much prefer the places where they consolidate. Emergencies don't respect town borders and these communities are already so intertwined in so many other ways. Hope this passes in the end!!
Shoreline, get ready for higher property taxes without the chance to vote on them!
This wasn’t a tax proposal.
How is it any different now than it’s been for the past 50 years? People vote for the Fire Commissioners, who decide if/when to raise levy rates. This vote didn’t change that. The RFA provides stability for both the Fire Department, firefighters, and the citizens in the RFA area. People who bothered to educate themselves voted overwhelmingly to approve the RFA, which has already increased services across Lake Forest Park, Kenmore, and Shoreline.
I'm glad to see that people value public services that help people, even outside of our direct community. We're all in this together.
That's a disappointingly low turnout so far. Makes me wonder how many people comment about it on social media but didn't bother submitting their ballot?
It will be
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