Springfield, MO, October 21, 2026 —

Voters in the Sunrise Beach Fire Protection District in Sunrise Beach, Missouri, will decide on Proposition Fire, a ballot measure proposing a 1% sales tax. The proposal is intended to provide funding for district operations and address several stated financial and service priorities.

Those aims include reducing residential property taxes, upgrading aging equipment and potentially opening a fourth fire station. The summary of the proposal does not specify how much revenue the tax is expected to generate, how the residential property tax reduction would be calculated, or which equipment would be upgraded.

Revenue is expected to be bolstered by tourist activity, according to the information provided about the measure. No estimate of tourist-related sales or the share of expected revenue from visitors was provided. The proposal’s specific tax duration and implementation details were also not provided.

The measure would put a proposed sales tax before voters in the district, but the date of the vote was not included in the available information. Details about the ballot language, the district’s current operating budget and the projected costs of a fourth fire station were not provided, either.

Proposition Fire presents several intended uses for the proposed revenue, but the available summary does not set out how funds would be divided among operations, equipment, property tax relief and a possible station. It also does not say whether opening the fourth station is a firm commitment or would depend on revenue and other conditions. Voters are being asked to decide on the proposed 1% tax; further specifics about its financial effects and implementation were not included in the information provided.


Story summarized from the original created by Coonor Trett on www.ky3.com, see more information here.

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