Although costs go up annually, Sumter County did not have a tax increase for many years due to the fact that additional revenues from all the new houses sold in the county each year were more than enough to cover any increase in expenses. If the impact fees were raised to where they should be resulting in a full 100% roll back of the increase, the developer would simply pass that increase to each new home built. In effect, the new homes would be paying for the increase in road construction, thereby paying for the increase that those new homes created.
The three new commissioners ran on a campaign of a 100% roll back. Many Sumter voters actually changed parties to vote for the EMT team. Do you honestly believe that the additional purchase price of each home caused by the charging the developer an increased impact fee will stop people from moving to The Villages? I doubt it!
The email address for Commissioner Gary Search is:
gary.search@sumtercountyfl.gov. (I do not know why this address is not on the county website).
The email address for Craig Estep is:craig.estep@sumtercountyfl.gov.
The email address for Oren Miller is:
oren.miller@sumtercountyfl.gov.
It only takes a few minutes to send an email to the three commissioners. In fact, you can address it to all three and not have to send three separate emails. I sent my email yesterday and indicated that the citizens of Sumter County who voted for them expect them to keep their campaign promise to roll back the tax increase by the full amount of the increase, not 60%, or 75% but the full 100%.