Belgrade residents will face the question of whether they want to create their own fire department in the spring.
City officials say it'll be costly -- roughly $3.3 million -- so they have another option on the table.
If residents vote to create their own department, taxes will have to be raised, but if they vote to annex themselves to the Central Valley Fire District, city officials say there won't be much of a fiscal change.
While they're both separate agencies, they've worked together for the last 70 years. That could change as Belgrade keeps growing.
Belgrade has yet to hit the 10,000 population mark, but once it does, state law would require it to have its own operating fire department. That's why city officials want to get the ball rolling on the annexation.