A cluster of Fire District 7 commissioners said their goodbyes earlier this month.
Dean Schwartz, Shauna Willner and Marc Inman will step down from their posts serving the residents of Snohomish County and representing the agency prior to the start of 2018. Fire Chief Gary Meek said in a news release that each one was instrumental in the merger of what was formerly Fire District 3 and Fire District 7.
“All three of these Commissioners stayed true to their beliefs about the future of the fire service, and cast their visions in building the district as it is known today,” Meek said in the release.
Voters legally approved the unification in the 2016 August primary election, and the two agencies officially became one that October.