Are we being played? The funding problems in Sutter County Service Area-F are no secret. Sutter Fire is County Service Area-F. The 2018–19 Grand Jury found County Service Area-F “dangerously understaffed and alarmingly underfunded.” The 2020–21 Grand Jury repeated that the 1997 special fire tax had never received a cost-of-living adjustment and that the Board of Supervisors had already agreed the district was underfunded. Sutter LAFCO’s 2025 fir…