Fire District Elections Saturday

Moorestown’s fire districts will hold their annual elections Saturday from 2 to 9 p.m.

In Fire District No. 1, residents will be voting on a budget that does not have any increase. That means taxes on the average assessed home, valued at $537,400, will pay $257.95 in taxes, according to District Administrator Christopher Chesner.

This year’s budget will raise approximately $1.7 million through taxation.

Fire District No. 1 will also include a second question on its ballot, asking residents to allow the company to purchase a fire inspector vehicle and a command vehicle in 2012. The cost of the purchase will not exceed $60,000 in 2012. Fire districts are required to ask voters second questions one year prior to making capital expenditures.

Voters will also be electing two fire commissioners to three-year terms on the Board of Fire Commissioners. Incumbents R. Max Fisher and Stephen H. Bixby are running uncontested.

Voting will be held at the Emergency Services Building, 261 W. Main St. Entrance to the polls is through the rear of the building.

At Lenola Fire District, voters will be asked to approve a budget that seeks to raise $683,265 through taxes, a 1.76 percent increase over last year’s tax levy. If the budget passes, residents covered by the Lenola Fire District would pay an average of $353.35. That amount is a $6.05 increase over 2010.

Incumbent commissioner Michael W. Maahs is running uncontested for one three-year term.

Residents in Fire District No. 2 can vote at the Lenola Fire House, 229 N. Lenola Rd.