The County Board of Supervisors today gave permission for the vermin-fighting Alameda County Vector Control District to try to annex the two remaining holdouts: Fremont and Emeryville.

It’s a little bit more interesting that it sounds. If approved by a weighted majority of Fremont property holders, the average home owner would see their property tax bill go up $10. Overall the assessment would raise $614,000 to fight vermin in Fremont.

The strange part is that Fremont doesn’t have much vermin. Last fiscal year, in fact records show that the city spent just $315 responding to a grand total of 11 calls for service. Now, the vector district says they got calls for Fremont and they do provide services that Fremont doesn’t.

You can read more about it here. I’ll be writing a follow-up story for tomorrow that will be kind of repetitive and not as thorough.