Community Impact reports that on March 24 the Montgomery County Emergency Service District No. 2 board gave the okay for a 20 percent homestead tax exemption for all district residents. Remaining in effect is the $25,000 exemption for residents age 65 years of age or older and the $25,000 disability exemption for 2023.
The homestead exemption lowers a home’s value that taxpayers remit property tax payments on.
District No. 2, according to fire chief Brian Edwards, is one of two ESD’s in the County to vote for a homestead exemption.
In ESD No.2 in March of 2022, a $3 million station broke ground in Walden. It’s set to be completed in July. In order to provide more water to it’s rural areas, also in March of 2022 ESD obtained two new tankers. This will help home owners in the area save more than 40 percent on insurance rates this year.
Two-hundred-thirty square miles is served by ESD 2’s fire department in northwest Montgomery County.
