After dozens of public meetings, eleven Marin jurisdictions have signed on as members of a new, tax-funded agency charged with preventing wildfires countywide, but the Tiburon Fire Protection District was the first to bow out.
The district’s board of directors voted 3-2 on Wednesday to decline membership. An additional eight are scheduled to vote this month.
Tiburon fire Chief Richard Pearce said the district decided not to join because it has already bolstered its own fire prevention efforts over the past 18 months. The district, which serves Belvedere and portions of the Tiburon Peninsula east of Reed Ranch Road, has hired inspectors to ensure that homeowners are pulling out hazardous vegetation, he said.
Joining the prevention agency “would be redundancy on what we’re already doing,” Pearce said.