{"id":30706,"date":"2023-11-08T02:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T02:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-county-approves-tax-hike-to-boost-the-rico-fire-protection-districts-budget\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:23:48","slug":"dolores-county-approves-tax-hike-to-boost-the-rico-fire-protection-districts-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-county-approves-tax-hike-to-boost-the-rico-fire-protection-districts-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores County approves tax hike to boost the Rico Fire Protection District\u2019s budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0216d285-9287-491b-9b20-64a20a20326a&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" alt=\"Dolores County voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure to boost the Rico Fire Department\u2019s budget.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Dolores County voters on Tuesday approved a ballot measure to boost the Rico Fire Department\u2019s budget.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Dolores County voters on Tuesday approved a ballot initiative to increase property taxes in order to hike the Rico Fire Protection District\u2019s annual budget.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot Issue 6A passed with 73% of the vote. The increase, which will take effect in 2024, is expected to add nearly $35,000 in additional funding for the fire district.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-pdf-embed\"><iframe class=\"article-pdf\" src=\"https:\/\/dur-prod-public-pdfs.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/HGtHEyjh3g68S1NyUmzP3qdRYpg.pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:500px;border:1px solid #ddd\" loading=\"lazy\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dur-prod-public-pdfs.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/HGtHEyjh3g68S1NyUmzP3qdRYpg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Vote Count.pdf (Download PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/iframe>\n<p class=\"naviga-pdf-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dur-prod-public-pdfs.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/HGtHEyjh3g68S1NyUmzP3qdRYpg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 Vote Count.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>measure is expected to add $35,000 in new funding for the RFPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,308,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-headlines","tag-local-elections","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81173,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30706\/revisions\/81173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30706"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}