While local officials have lobbied the state legislature in Olympia the past several years for 0.1 percent sales tax to fund emergency centers, no real concern was voiced until the earthquake that hit the Puget Sound region Feb. 28.
The Kitsap County Board of Commissioners has approved $38,000 for architects' preliminary designs. The site is on a 42-acre campus where development is already underway for a fire-fighter training facility.
The $8.5 million proposal would cost property owners approximately 14 cents per $1,000 of assessed value in the first year of the five-year plan. The following four years would be slightly less expensive, county officials said.
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