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Originally Posted by Bill14564
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.
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I agree completely with the concept and improved response time.
The controversy’s seem to be the complexity and lack of firm budgets and estimates .
We are being asked to take a “leap of faith” and trust the impact is approximately cost neutral.
It would be easier to decide if the proponents provided a firm not to exceed budget of + or - X percent