{"id":37060,"date":"2025-11-05T21:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:57:10","slug":"final-with-all-91-vote-centers-reporting-esd-1-apparently-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/37060\/","title":{"rendered":"FINAL: with all 91 vote centers reporting, ESD-1 apparently passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete, unofficial returns in yesterday\u2019s election show the proposal to create an emergency services district (ESD-1) in Collin County was favored by 6,594 voters or 72.57% of the total vote count of 9.086, Collin County Elections reported at 12:33 a.m.<br \/>There were 2,492 votes against ESD-1, or 27.43%.<br \/>Results are not official until they are canvassed by the Collin County Commissioners Court.<br \/>There were 47,869 registered voters living outside city limits who were eligible vote on the issue, Elections Administrator Kaleb Breaux said.<br \/>Collin County Elections said voter turnout was 15.83% with 117,5109 ballots cast in all races out of the county\u2019s total voter roll of 742,114. <br \/>Election Day voting Nov. 4 was 59,012, surpassing the 56,982 ballots cast in early voting that ended Oct. 31. <br \/>Commissioners called the emergency services election after receiving a petition seeking to create ESD-1 to serve residents in the 75.5 square miles of unincorporated area.<br \/>Since October 2013, the county has paid fire departments in 22 cities a total of $950,000 to provide emergency service to rural residents living outside the cities. <br \/>Melissa dropped their contract last year and the cities of Princeton, McKinney, Wylie and Farmersville filed notice of termination effective Oct. 1 of this year, saying the county was not paying them enough to make runs into their extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). <br \/>However, McKinney decided to continue service to rural residents for another year and the Princeton City Council voted July 28 to extend service through the end of this month.<br \/>The ESD would be governed by a board of five directors appointed by the Commissioners Court. The board would be able to set a property tax, capped by state law at ten cents per $100 valuation, to finance fire service. The district could then negotiate with the cities to continue fire service under new contracts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Complete, unofficial returns in yesterday\u2019s election show the proposal to create an emergency services district (ESD-1) in Collin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":{"0":"post-37060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-plano","8":"tag-plano","9":"tag-plano-headlines","10":"tag-plano-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37060","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=37060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}