[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Kenswing

I guess we can add Pig-in-a-poke to sweetheart impact fees as the most overused catch phrases of the year. Hopefully we'll not have to hear anymore of this obsessive hatred toward the Developer for another two years when I'm sure he'll be back to endear us with a new catch phrase.

And he’ll be reincarnated with a new name.

[dewilson58]

Some of the haters might not be around because of the slow response time.

[Babubhat]

If they arrive in time it was irrelevant. If they are late it won’t matter anyway. People need to live and stop worrying.

[dewilson58]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

If they arrive in time it was irrelevant. If they are late it won’t matter anyway. People need to live and stop worrying.

Clueless Dude................I know people who have been saved. If they are late, they missed an opportunity. "live & stop worrying"......that's the point, live........not late & die.

WOW.

[Papa_lecki]

The financial answer could not be answered clearly.

The IFD will cost each house $X and $Y will come off your county taxes.
X and Y should have been the same or within a few dollars

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

Some of the haters might not be around because of the slow response time.

I suppose in the cases when faster arriving first responders can jump start a stopped heart it would help, but if the patient requires timely and competent care from the Villages hospital the faster response time is highly unlikely to matter.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Papa_lecki

The financial answer could not be answered clearly.

The IFD will cost each house $X and $Y will come off your county taxes.
X and Y should have been the same or within a few dollars

Did you happen to see any information or posts or meetings or articles that mentioned an average increase between $85 - $125? What did you think that meant?

And before we start with the definition of "few dollars," everyone in the county who pays taxes contributes to the VPSD whether they are in the Villages or not. When you change that and only have those in the Villages pay then the cost per household goes up a little - about $85 - $125.

The information was presented dozens of times - some just chose to not hear it.

[Bill14564]

///Misunderstood point of comment I was replying to///

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Is "highly unlikely" your professional opinion, your personal experience, what you saw on television, or did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?

Personal experience, and worst experience of my life. Spent twelve hours there with a severe life threatening illness, barley got any care, finally misdiagnosed and sent home after midnight to die. Couldn’t possibly comprehend worse experience even if they were trying to do worst possible job. There isn’t a rating low enough to give the hell hole.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Personal experience, and worst experience of my life. Spent twelve hours there with a severe life threatening illness, barley got any care, finally misdiagnosed and sent home after midnight to die. Couldn’t possibly comprehend worse experience even if they were trying to do worst possible job. There isn’t a rating low enough to give the hell hole.

My apologies. I misunderstood your point. I have removed my comment.

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by Babubhat

We lost nothing. Nada. Zilch. Emotional arguments and speculative promises did not fly. Carry on.

Time will tell, but you cannot say you have lost nothing because you have no idea what the politicians might decide to do with your service. Would have been much better with an independent system and an elected board of Villagers. But you said no.

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker

It is interesting that the proposed fire district won a majority of the votes in some of the newer districts. I would submit that this is because the new arrivals have not yet learned to be skeptical of projects and candidates promoted by the Developer, the Developer's appointed officials, the Developer's million-dollars-a-year-for-part-time-work-employee State Representative Brett Hage, the Developer's newspaper, and the Developer's VHA. Villagers should be aware that "The VHA" trademark is registered to the Developer. “the vha” is a trademark of the villages developer

The proposed fire district was, indeed, a pig in a poke that we were being asked to buy. It went down to a well-deserved defeat. The present system is working, and there was no need to change it.

Maybe the newer areas are more aware of how isolated they are from the "main" part of Sumter and understand they would have been better off with a Villager run system.

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker

That is the boogeyman set up by the proponents to try to sell us the pig-in-a-poke fire district. But why in the world would the county commissioners, who under One Sumter are ALL elected by Villagers, going to do something opposed by Villagers?????

Because they tried to do that at least once before Remember the people YOU promoted to the SCBOC?

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

I voted early and I had full knowledge.

Good for you. Not sure about others though.

[Rainger99]

People always talk about slow response times. I have tried to get accurate numbers on how many people died because of slow response times (or had severe health consequences) but no one has them.

I also tried to find out how response times here compare to response times across the state and the country.

Does anyone have this information??