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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
I would not trust most people to know how to operate an organization like the VPS or lifesaving services. The county has experience with it, people who are specially trained to handle it, know about it, know what to do, what not to do. Especially when it comes to handling the services for the entire county, not just a singular community in that county - no matter how many people live in that singular community.
There are thousands of people living in Sumter County, who do /not/ live in the Villages. They need to have reliable, trustworthy, efficient service too.
If you vote "yes" you'll be putting 100% of the authority and trust to do the RIGHT thing - not just what's best for you personally - in the hands of a real estate developer (and his family) who has no actual experience in handling medical or fire emergencies.
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The only people in the county that have anything to do with the VPSD are the BoCC. They (mostly) do not have experience in emergency services and do not have special training. Their only role with the VPSD is to send money and leave it alone.
When the county was running the ambulance service it was a disaster. They fixed it by giving control to the fire companies - for us the VPSD.
If you vote "yes" the actual running of the VPSD will not change, it will still be with the VPSD. What changes is the funding for the VPSD will no longer depend on the BoCC and the tradeoffs they feel they need to make.
The Developer will be less in control of the VPSD under the IFD than they are now.
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