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Originally Posted by Bilyclub
Independent as in paying what the govenor's/developer's appointees wanted to tax us for TVFD. We were also going to be paying for the SCFD just like we were and still are. The powers that be are too afraid of the backlash of making the 20% of Sumter County residents outside TV pay for the SCFD.
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Independent as in knowing what the VPSD taxes would be, not reliant on Sumter County for VPSD funding, not impacted by Sumter County budget shortfalls, and not in jeopardy of having the VPSD dissolved and its resources allocated to the SCFEMS. Whereas today we don't know what the taxes will be, we are waiting to find out what funding Sumter County will provide, it WILL be less than we need because of their shortfall, and there is still the possibility that the VPSD and SCFEMS will be merged into one.
What Sumter County would have done with the budget was unknown then, just as it is unknown today. We're now two weeks away from knowing what the 2023-24 budget will finally look like, at the time of the vote we were 11 months away from having any firm information. However, the information we did have was that the SCFEMS expenses had been removed from the projected 2023-24 budget - not a guarantee but a clear step in the direction of Villagers NOT paying for that service.