Licking County Commissioners could offer little assistance to nearly a dozen Union Township residents seeking help stopping a proposed fire district.
On Tuesday, the residents met with commissioners at the request of Union Township resident Leslie Herro who asked the commissioners to work with their group to have the village of Hebron conform its boundaries, which means removing itself from the township.
"If they conform, it will compel (Hebron) to lower the tax rates of their residents and operate the fire department within their means rather than fund it on the backs of non-residents," Herro told the commissioners.
In recent months, Hebron Village Council and Union Township Trustees hired an attorney at $1,000 each to draft a resolution to form the fire district, which is tentatively named the Refugee-Canyon Fire District.