The best way to deal with providing fire and EMS service in Salisbury and the surrounding area is for Wicomico County to agree to some form of tax relief.
That’s was the opinion of the Salisbury Fire Chief Rick Hoppes.
Mayor Jim Ireton has laid down a deadline for later this year for the county to come to some agreement with the city or fire and EMS service will be restricted to the city limits of Salisbury.
The comments by the chief came during a roundtable discussion yesterday looking at options to resolve the issue.
The Salisbury Daily Times reports that one plan would levy a new tax that would cost a home assessed at $175-thousand around $250 more a year.
Ireton says that around 65 percent of country residents receive those services but only 25 percent pay additional taxes.
