The village in June asked commissioners for the change so that about 250 acres of the village that's in Hamilton Township would be in Union Township.

South Lebanon Mayor James Smith said Tuesday that village officials wanted to get additional legal opinions before moving forward with their goal of putting the village under only one fire district.

Hamilton Township officials were going to fight the proposed change.

Trustees Clyde Baston and Becky Ehling said the township would have lost $100,000 a year from the fire and emergency medical-services fund - the equivalent of two full-time or four part-time personnel.

It would have been another $30,000 a year in lost taxes from the general fund.

"That would have been a pretty good blow on us," Ehling said.

"We couldn't have afforded to take that kind of preliminary loss."

Hamilton Township trustees met last week with about 50 residents to talk about how this would affect them.

All three county commissioners said Tuesday they had heard from residents who were opposed to the change.

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