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Originally Posted by Altavia
Maybe I'm confused, fire departments need to be funded one way or another.
A few hundred people unwilling to pay an extra dollar a day to support our fire department, show up to a meeting and the BOCC overrules the voters without an alternate solution?
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You bring up a good point. Homeowners were to see the fire assessment jump from $124 to $324. This was not really that large an increase in our overall county taxes as we have a reduction this upcoming year in our regular county taxes on our homes. People were panicked into showing up at the meeting worrying about the fire fee increase. The fact was that a great deal of the money was coming from the commercial side. That is why we had editorials and news articles in The Daily Sun.