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Originally Posted by Romad
1. The cost will be established by unelected people, not necessarily from TV.
2. The actual cost per homeowner won’t be known until June 2023.
3. The assessment will be based on actual home values instead of assessed value. Who determines them?
While Mr. Wiley’s response is long, he failed to address why so many were concerned about the cost last Thursday. If he was there, why didn’t he speak up?
If you thought the 25% tax increase over the roads was bad, you haven’t seen anything yet.
I think more of us would be interested in the cost for one fire department in Sumter county instead of two.
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Who is "us" and what does that have to do with the funding of the IFD?
- Most of "us" in the Villages have expressed time and again our desire to have a VPSD separate from the Sumter County Fire Department (SCFD).
- The discussion of funding has nothing to do with a separate fire department. The VPSD exists today and it will exist after the election. If the IFD is approved then the VPSD would have its own funding source and would be further removed from decisions of the Sumter County Commissioners. But even without the IFD, the VPSD will exist separate from SCFD.
Using Mr. Wiley's information along with the information that has been provided by the VPSD, I would expect to see my taxes increase by at most 0.1 mils or less than 2%. Yes, the actual numbers will not be known until July/August 2023 when the budgets are put together and things may change by then. We have to decide whether we trust the numbers the VPSD and Mr. Wiley have provided. I know I do.