GCFD 7 EMS levy on ballot

SOAP LAKE - Grant County Fire District 7 Proposition No. 1 is a six-year EMS levy that will go to fund the department’s EMS program. “Every penny of our budget has and will always go back to the people in service whether that service is the fire side or EMS side,” said GCFD7 Fire Chief Viktor Bragar. “And for us to be able to support them to our best ability, we need to be able to have the funds for it.” The levy rate is .25 per $1,000 of assessed property value, he said. “It was us going with the bare minimum of what we could ask for to not burden the citizens of the community,” said Bragar...