The Bainbridge Island Fire Department will be asking voters for a levy and 20-year $16 million bond next month during the special election.
Before voters head to the ballot boxes, the departments is looking to answer any questions residents have on the levy and bond.
The levy would increase the 2015 regular property tax to 95 cents per $1,000.00 of assessed valuation. Without the increase it is estimated to be 86 cents.
The levy would be used to hiring three more firefighters, and pay for three that have been recently hired. Those firefighters would be used to open Fire Station 23 on Phelps Road, which is currently closed and unmanned.
The money will not be collected until 2016.
The 20-year $16 million bond would be to pay for rebuilding, remodeling and equipping the department’s fire stations.
You can read more about the bond and levy details in a previous story I did in the Kitsap Sun.
The open houses will be:
- January 07, 2015 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Station 21 – 8895 Madison Avenue, NE
- January 14, 2015 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Station 22 – 7934 NE Bucklin Hill Road
- January 21, 2015 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Station 23 – 12985 Phelps Road
- January 24, 2015 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. at Station 21 – 8895 Madison Avenue, NE
- January 24, 2015 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Station 22 – 7934 NE Bucklin Hill Road
Residents can also attend the bi-monthly fire commissioner meetings.
