Clallam County Fire District 3 is developing a long-range financial plan. The first steps are to clearly identify and evaluate all sources of revenue and forecast future service demands.
Early in this process, we learned that many in our community did not know how fire and emergency medical services are funded, how many services the fire district provides, and just how busy our crews are. We are working hard to share information about these issue through a newsletter, our website (www.ccfd3.org) and social media (Twitter — @ClallamFire3) (Facebook — ClallamFD3).
The fire district primarily funds emergency medical services and fire suppression through two property tax levies. Over time, these levy rates fall as property values rise, which limits the fire district to roughly the same amount of revenue per year plus a one-percent increase allowed by law.