Clark County Fire District 3 hopes to stop the hemorrhaging of its emergency reserves by bumping a fire levy back up to $1.42 per $1,000 of assessed property value.
FD3 contracts with the city of Battle Ground and serves 40,000 people across 84 square miles, including Hockinson, Finn Hill, Brush Prairie, Battle Ground Lake, Heisson and Lucia Falls.
The levy dropped to $1.29 at the beginning of this year after the district failed to pass a levy lid lift last August. The district hopes for better luck this November when it goes to vote again, a decision made by their commissioners on June 12.
The district had the option to ask for up to $1.50, but are just asking voters get them back to where they were.