Recovery efforts continued Tuesday in areas impacted by the Kincade Fire as the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors worked toward making their community more fire safe.
Tuesday morning, the board approved a one-half cent sales tax measure for wildfire prevention, emergency alerts, and response that will be on the ballot next March.
“The easy part is the vote to put it on the ballet and the harder part will be to get it passed and convince folks it is the right thing to do,” said Sonoma County Supervisor David Rabbitt. “We look forward to that challenge as we go forward because I do think it is the right thing to do.”
In the meantime, Sonoma County is doing an emergency household hazardous waste sweep of all properties destroyed by the Kincade Fire. That includes 374 structures, 174 of which are homes.