Bend City Councilor Mark Capell supports the levy.

"The fire department is dramatically under funded and we are putting people at risk with response times that are not what are recommended by medical professionals because of the level of our staffing."

If approved,  property owners would be taxed twenty cents for thousand dollars of assessed property value for five year.

The levy is expected to raise 1.8 million dollars in its first year and over ten million dollars over the lifetime levy.