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10 <br />Conclusion <br />The Statute provides that the Board have broad discretion with which to fund f re services <br />with taxes. Currently, Orange County funds fire services by dividing the County into rural fire <br />protection tax districts. The Board is the governing boac~d for each rural fire protection districts. <br />The Board contracts for fire services with ten volunteer corporations and two municipal fire <br />departments to furnish fire services to a specific Mural fue protection tax district. There are <br />several revenue options available to Board to provide fire service to residents in the County. The <br />Board could keep the current rural fire protection distr7cts, create fire service districts or a single <br />countywide fire service district in the unincorporated areas, or have a hybrid of both rural fire <br />protection and fire service districts. <br />