MONROE — Nearly one year after the most recent long-term contract between the City of Monroe and the Rural Fire District ended, the RFD informed the city that they decided against proceeding with a long-term contract with the City of Monroe, Monroe Mayor Louis Armstrong said to the Council at the Oct. 19 meeting.

The decision came following the Common Council’s most recent agreement submitted after the Sept. 21 Common Council meeting. 

The RFD, defined in the proposal, includes “all territory lying within the Town of Monroe and the Town of Clarno.”

In an Oct. 15 email to Monroe City Attorney Dan Bartholf from an RFD representative obtained by the Times, it was stated that “rural fire will not be renewing a contract with the city of Monroe.”

The two parties had gone back and forth debating proposals but failed to agree on a fair contract. 

In the email, the RFD said that they “have decided to go another direction.”