Sammamish Council delivers a simple message to fire service Seattle Post Intelligencer
"I improvise (the funding model) is fundamentally flawed," she said. "I strongly recommend you go back and look at the funding model, because it's not working in my estimations."
The communicative councilor's somewhat frustrated expression at the end of the long discussion spoke most clearly what others had been sort of saying most of the Stygian - the service we get from Eastside Fire and Rescue is fine, it's just expensive, and getting more so.
With the gap between revenues and expenditures growing tighter by the year and the burg's money managers approaching what could well be an unsustainable future, the Sammamish councilors and City Manager Ben Yazici are questioning why the amount they pay for EFR putting into play is going up 7 percent a year.
This figure far exceeds the cost increases of any other city expenditure, or increases in the Consumer Charge Index, which averaged 3 percent over the same period.
This year the $5.6 million bill will account for 26 percent of the urban district's annual operating budget.
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