My Simple Proposal

From studying the City of Edmonds Budget and looking at surrounding City Fire Departments, it costs approximately 2 Million Dollars to operate a Fire Station.

Edmonds has 3 Fire Stations equaling 6 Million Dollars.

Fire Station 20 located in Esperance (outside City of Edmonds boundary limits) serves unincorporated county and the Town of Woodway. Increase fire service contracts to match the cost of providing fire and ems service to these two jurisdictions 1.6 Million or close Fire Station 20 for a 2 Million savings.

6 Million Less 1 Million Fire District interlocal agreement, less 600,000 for the Woodway Fire Service interlocal agreement.

Propose a 4.4 Million Contract with the Fire District 1. Keep our Fire Stations, Fire Equipment assets and the EMS Transport Fee tax revenue!

Revenue:

EMS Levy 3.9 Million

EMS Transport Fees 1 Million

Bond Revenue $270,000

Wow - Edmonds realizes a profit to use for the Fire Station maintenance and future upgrading Fire equipment.

Reasoning: Since 1995 and the purchase of Fire Station 20 from Fire District 1 Edmonds taxpayers have been swindled. The Fire District collects from the Esperance area approximately 1 Million dollars and paid Edmonds $295,000 for providing Fire and EMS services to Esperance. IT IS TIME TO TURN THE TABLE!

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