The proposed merger of the fire districts from Mt. Angel and Monitor will go to voters in November after the Marion County Commissioners on July 27 approved the resolution to give residents a choice.
The proposed district would combine the two into a 71-square-mile district that would include about 8,200 people in Marion and Clackamas counties.
Leaders of the neighboring districts cited an increasing number of calls they have to respond to and the diminishing number of volunteers for why they want to combine…