The Board of County Commissioners next Workshop Meeting will be held on May 21, 2024
 

BOCC workshop meeting this Tuesday. Note the change of venue.
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Stay informed and view all of our agendas online. The Board of County Commissioners next Workshop Meeting will be held on May 21, 2024 at 6:00 pm, located at the Eisenhower Recreation Center, MacArthur Room, 3560 Buena Vista Blvd, The Villages and the agenda is available online.

The following topics will be discussed:
Sumter County Fire Assessment MSBU
Sumter County Fire Impact Fee Study
Sumter County Road Impact Fee Study
Sumter County Building Services User Fee Update Study

All Board of County Commissioners meetings are posted online at least 3 days prior to the meeting.

Click here to view the agenda for the May 21, 2024 Workshop Meeting Agenda - 05/21/2024
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Just to be clear the Fire MSBU and Impact Fees are for the Sumter County Fire and EMS only and are not going to impact residents in the VPSD district - they don’t impact you if you live in The Villages.

Somewhere the overhead costs factor in with both parts. Dispatch, radio maintenance, etc.
Wouldn't how those costs are allocated impact all residents?
How are they handled?

Yes, these and several other expenses that are shared costs (vehicle maintenance garage/staffing, 911 center, and several other mandated programs like Baker Act) are funded from the county General Fund. These have been and will remain outside the fire department budgets.

The biggest expense for both fire department budgets that is carried by the general fund budget is the ambulance/EMS readiness cost, about $1.2 million per ambulance. The cost of the ambulance services when the vehicle is in operation/responding (30% of the time) is covered primarily by insurance recovery. The other 70% of the cost is what is known as Readiness - staffing/training/maintenance/etc. while the vehicle is at the station and not on a run and is carried by the county General Fund. It's this latter component, readiness, which has changed the response time for transport services from 2 hours or more in Sumter County to 5-10 min. throughout the county and The Villages.

Is it live-streamed? I'm claustrophobic.

No, but it will be held at the Eisenhower Rec Center on Tuesday