The need to diversify revenue is driving the Emergency Service District (ESD) 6 to take a proposition for implementation of a sales tax to area voters this May.

The proposition calls for one quarter of one percent of sales tax to be implemented within unincorporated areas in its 244-square-mile district.

ESD 6, which is the North Hays County Fire Rescue, serves approximately 35,000 people in the Dripping Springs city limits and the majority of the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ)....