Boulder County this week awarded about $2 million to mainly rural fire districts in the third round of fall grants from the Emergency Services Sales and Use Tax.

The grants, approved Tuesday by the Boulder County commissioners, were the third round awarded since the tax was approved by voters in 2022. In the fall of 2024, the county awarded $1.3 million in emergency services grants. In the fall of 2023, the first round totaled $1.6 million.

“We try to help those agencies that just don’t have as much mill levy or tax funding,” said Barb Halpin, Boulder County special projects coordinator.

Along with the fire protection district grants, the county awards grants to local search and rescue organizations in the spring. About a quarter of the money generated by the tax goes to emergency servi

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