The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

While I don’t usually comment on items in the local paper, I felt that the this issue was important enough to warrant a response from the City as it is clear to me that the majority of people still don’t understand the issue at hand.

First, a new tax will not show up on tax statements next year, as property taxing is always a year behind. Taxes collected in the current year are for the prior year, so money collected in 2015 is actually for 2014s taxes.

Therefore, the citizens of Waitsburg will not be taxed for the Fire District, should the annexation be approved, until 2017 for the 2016 tax ye...