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A Cloquet Area Fire District unit made it's way down Cloquet Avenue during the Fourth of July parade this month. The CAFD board last week pproved a preliminary budget for 2025 which includes a 30-percent increase in the ambulance levy.
After hearing an annual report from the district's auditors on July 17, which highlighted the issue of the district writing off over half of its ambulance fee revenue, the Cloquet Area Fire District board approved a preliminary budget for 2025 which includes a 30-percent increase in the ambulance levy.
The double-digit tax hike would be the largest since 2023, when the levy increased by 100 percent. For 2024, the ambulance levy increased by 2.83 percent. The reason for such a sharp increase in the 2025 ambulance levy is to get ahead on ambulance purchases.
"If we don't increase the levy enough...
