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Originally Posted by njbchbum
LOL You are the poster who claimed that impact fees are to be reviewed every 5 years...thus 2020! The impact fee was not raised when Fenny, et.al. were announced and neither were S.C. taxes! But life is different now and something else should have been done *because* a tax increase was implemented? lololol
If the County maintained that 'rainy day' fund for unanticipated issues it would have that funding to fall back on in order to avoid such a serious tax increase. You claimed it is not raining - I claim that S.C. is suffering from a torrential downpour! Even my little town up north maintains that 'rainy day' fund with a small percentage of its annual tax revenue to be used to cover $$ associated with properties on which owners fail to pay their taxes or for other community issues which would place a burden on the taxpayers!
Why did no one complain when taxes were not increased for so many years? Was everyone enjoying riding the gravy train? So now the train is back in the depot and the piper needs to be paid for maintenance work that needs to be done and in preparation for the next gravy train run!
The S.C millage rate is still the lowest of all 3 Villages Counties - is it not?
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I am afraid that you misread my post and didn't check the Sumter County website.
I said that the impact fees were to be reviewed “
at least every 5 years” [emphasis added]. For your information, here is a quote from the Sumter County web site:
“Section 20-48 of the Sumter County Code of Ordinances requires that the data upon which road impact fees are calculated be reviewed at least once every five years to ensure that a valid and equitable basis for the assessment of such fees is maintained.”
I am glad to be educated if I make a mistake, but please get your facts straight and don't misquote me.
The issue here is simple: The Developer came to his toadies on the Commission with a plan to double the size of The Villages, which will necessitate large expenditures for infrastructure. The toadies on the Commission could pay for this infrastructure expansion either through increasing the Developer's impact fee or by imposing a tax increase on Sumter County residents. The Commissioners chose the latter.
This has nothing to do with a rainy-day fund or the failure of the Commissioners to set one up. Had they set up a rainy-day fund, it would still be the taxpayers, not the Developer, paying for the infrastructure expansion necessitated by The Villages expansion.