{"id":242138,"date":"2026-04-09T15:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242138\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:17:19","slug":"esd-1-board-gets-down-to-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242138\/","title":{"rendered":"ESD-1 board gets down to business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioners of Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1 have held their second meeting as they prepare to oversee fire protection for county residents who live in rural areas outside of city limits.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Monday, March 30, at the county\u2019s Jack Hatchell Administration Building in McKinney, the board discussed tax collection services, interlocal agreements and emergency service contracts.<\/p>\n<p>The board convened in open session and heard public testimony on agenda items before turning to routine business, including approval of minutes from its Feb. 23 organizational meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items discussed was a tax collection services agreement with the Collin County Tax Assessor-Collector, as well as the submission of a new governmental organization to the Collin Central Appraisal District.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Schaffner, deputy county administrator, told the board, \u201cSince you are going to be a taxing entity \u2014 like property tax \u2014 you have to designate somebody to actually collect those funds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story, stay infomed and support your local community newspaper, subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/publisher1.etype.services\/Princeton-Herald\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Princeton Herald.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commissioners of Collin County Emergency Services District No. 1 have held their second meeting as they prepare to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-242138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}