Maple Valley Fire agreed to a 20-year contract to join services with Puget Sound Regional Fire Authority (RFA) on May 31.
This contract was unanimously approved by both fire departments.
“Maple Valley’s board of commissioners unanimously approved the contract on May 31. On June 6 our governance board for the Regional Fire Authority unanimously approved the contract,” Kyle Ohashi, Captain and Public Information Officer for the RFA explained. “Now the contract is going to be signed. The contract goes into effect July 1. The contract is scheduled to go into (full) effect by Jan. 1, 2019. There are parts of the contract that very likely will go into affect prior to that.”
Positions like emergency response will go into effect Oct. 1, 2018, he said.