Update: Georgetown voters support ESD 8 sales and use tax

  • 7-year-old Max Acker makes a big leap from a fire engine he looked over at the dedication ceremony of the Georgetown Fire Department's new Station 2 on Saturday, March 16, 2013.
    7-year-old Max Acker makes a big leap from a fire engine he looked over at the dedication ceremony of the Georgetown Fire Department's new Station 2 on Saturday, March 16, 2013.

    Update: With 99 percent of precincts reporting Election Day results in Williamson County as of 10:30 p.m. Tuesday,  56.32 percent of voters support Emergency Service District 8’s 2 percent sales and use tax proposition.

    Emergency Service District 8 serves much of the land immediately outside Georgetown’s city limits. Adding a special use tax would help ease the burden of the cost of emergency …