When the Board of Trustees approved a 2020-21 fiscal year budget last week, it appropriated an additional $150,000 for an “administrative position” at the WFRD, likely a deputy chief, a position eliminated in recent years as finances got tight. Thanks to an April 2019 voter referendum that approved a 20 percent increase in the district’s […]
Voters gave the Woodstock Fire/Rescue District the vote it needed in the April 2 tax referendum. But it will be another year before they give the emergency service the money. With nearly 65 percent of voters supporting the tax increase, the district was authorized to increase its share of local property taxes by 20 percent […]
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