Within the Snoqualmie Valley, there are four local ballot measures on the Nov. 8 ballot, most of them related to fire protection services and all of them named Proposition 1.

The measures affect nearly every city in the Valley:

The merger of Fire Districts 10 and 38 in the Eastside Regional Fire Authority’s proposal will be voted on by residents in Carnation and unincorporated areas of North Bend and Snoqualmie;

The M&O levy proposed by Fall City Fire will affect future operations in Fire Protection District 27;

The city of Snoqualmie’s Proposition 1 needs voter approval to expand public safety staffing levels in the city; and

The city of Duvall’s Proposition 1 has three components, improvements to Big Rock Ballfield, increasing the city’s IT budget, and increasing funding for a school resource officer. The city of Duvall also has an advisory vote on the ballot, asking residents whether the city should allow the sale, possession or discharge of any consumer fireworks in the city.

Record Staff have summarized the details of each Proposition this week.

Eastside Regional Fire Authority Proposition 1

Name on the ballot: Proposition No. 1

Sponsoring organization: Proposed Eastside Regional Fire Authority (Fire Districts 10 and 38)

What it will do: Proposition 1 calls for voters to authorize the merger of Fire Districts 10 and 38 into a Regional Fire Authority, and to implement a Fire Benefit Charge in Fire District 38.

Fire District 10 covers 129 square miles in Carnation, Preston, Tiger Mountain and May Valley and serves 30,000 people.

Fire District 38 covers 24 square miles in unincorporated North Bend and Snoqualmie and serves 10,000 people.

Both districts have lost properties, and thereby tax base, to annexations from nearby cities, and began work late last year on the possibility of a merger between the two.

“It’s a question of sustainability,” said Fire Authority Planning Chair Mike Mitchell. “Working together as one fire authority would stabilize funding for emergency services and is more efficient for taxpayers in both fire districts.”

“The districts are shrinking with annexations … and as we each become smaller, there’s an economy of scale for us to combine.”

For more information visit http://www.eastsidefire-rescue.org or attend one of two informational meetings:

• 7 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 19, at Station 78, 20720 S.E. May Valley Rd., Issaquah; or

• 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 20, at Station 87, 500 Maloney Grove Ave. S.E., North Bend.

Anticipated cost: In Fire District 10, the tax rate is projected to decrease by 23 cents per $1,000 of assessed value, for about $90 in savings on a $400,000 home.

In Fire District 38, the tax rate is projected to increase by 20 cents per $1,000, about $80 more for a $400,000 home.

Effective date: Jan. 1, 2017

Needed to pass: Simple majority needed to create regional fire authority, 60 percent or greater approval to establish the fire benefit charge.