{"id":41610,"date":"2019-07-26T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/support-our-first-responders-vote-yes-on-prop-1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-26T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T17:30:00","slug":"support-our-first-responders-vote-yes-on-prop-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/support-our-first-responders-vote-yes-on-prop-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Support our first responders, vote yes on Prop 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all depend on the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority to provide emergency medical services and fire protection and prevention throughout our community.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, we were paying $1.00 per 1,000 square feet of assessed value for these services. We are currently paying approximately $0.70 for those same services. That amount has not been adjusted for inflation since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>For the PSRFA to maintain the same level and quality of service, the property tax rate needs to be reset to $1, and that requires a yes vote from you.<\/p>\n<p>The PSRFA has a two-part funding system, which includes a property tax in combination with a benefit charge. If this measure passes, while the property tax will increase, the benefit charge will decrease at almost the same amount.<\/p>\n<p>Please vote yes for Prop 1 on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; Toni Troutner, Kent Council member<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all depend on the Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority to provide emergency medical services and fire protection and prevention throughout our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41610"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41610"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}