The lawyers at CEGR Law represent numerous fire protection districts, ambulance/EMS providers and combined authorities. We routinely assist in the writing of mutual aid agreements, intergovernmental authority agreements, lease-purchase financing for fire or emergency apparatus, financing for fire stations and remote facilities, personnel issues related to permanent staff and volunteer staff, and adoption or application of fire codes. In Colorado, fire districts often have to work within the constraints of limited tax revenues and grants to provide fire prevention, protection, and emergency services, sometimes in dispersed, rural or wildland interface settings. We have assisted fire, ambulance and EMS districts with innovative tax ballot questions to maintain tax revenue in the face of changing assessed property valuations and TABOR restrictions. And we understand the unique operating challenges facing our emergency service providers in the face of growth of neighboring municipalities and the threat of annexation of property served by our clients.