{"id":70312,"date":"2024-08-07T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/home2\/vrfa-prop-1-passing-in-early-primary-results\/"},"modified":"2024-08-07T13:21:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T20:21:33","slug":"vrfa-prop-1-passing-in-early-primary-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/northwest\/vrfa-prop-1-passing-in-early-primary-results\/","title":{"rendered":"VRFA Prop. 1 passing in early primary results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 8,076 ballots counted for the Valley Regional Fire Authority&rsquo;s Proposition No. 1 Special Purpose District levy, the first tallies showed the yes votes at 5,961 (72% of the total votes available) to the no votes at 1,809 votes (or 23.28%).<\/p>\n<p>The measure asks voters within the VRFA&rsquo;s service area to consider continuing the use of a voter-approved fire benefit charge (FBC) each year for the next 10 years. The FBC is a fee reflecting a direct and proportional assessment of the cost of providing appropriate fire protection services to a particular building. The FBC is calculated based on occupancy type and square footage of structures.<\/p>\n<p>Revenue derived from the FBC is restricted by state law not to exceed 60 percent of the VRFA&rsquo;s operating budget. By approving the FBC, state law prohibits imposing an additional property tax of 50 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value for fire protection services otherwise allowed by law. Since 2008, the FBC has supported between 37-48 percent of the VRFA operating budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 8,076 ballots counted for the Valley Regional Fire Authority&rsquo;s Proposition No. 1 Special Purpose District levy, the first tallies showed the yes votes at 5,961 (72% of the total votes available) to the no votes at 1,809 votes (or 23.28%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":70314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,24],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-70312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home2","category-northwest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70312"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}