Originally Posted by tophcfa

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.

I guess you don't realize that a patient has a choice for which hospital they are transported to. That being said just where do you think Sumter County will transport patients to?

Originally Posted by VApeople

What are our "unique needs"?

Our unique community-wide unique need is age. Oh...and the more advanced in age you are the greater your probability of needing emergency medical care increases.

[Daddymac]

This was for the “builder” Again!! My Taxes would have raised about $550 for the fire ambulance district. !! The “Builder would NEVER get an increase over the years, So now YOU the home owner would pay dearly. Also right now the Fire/ Ambulance district negotiate a Union contract with the county. If this went through, The “ Board “. Would negotiate the contract. With a private fire department/ambulance with the board on their side, Who would they be looking out for. AND REMEMBER, ONCE THIS IS DONE THERE IS NO GOING BACK. You are stuck with it, and you will live with it. NEVER PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION !!

[Daddymac]

Originally Posted by Pete Swanson

Just wondering. If you are a PT resident or a "landlord" so-to-speak, how would you vote on this issue? Just askin!

Vote NO.. This was to steal your money legally

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Daddymac

This was for the “builder” Again!! My Taxes would have raised about $550 for the fire ambulance district. !! The “Builder would NEVER get an increase over the years, So now YOU the home owner would pay dearly. Also right now the Fire/ Ambulance district negotiate a Union contract with the county. If this went through, The “ Board “. Would negotiate the contract. With a private fire department/ambulance with the board on their side, Who would they be looking out for. AND REMEMBER, ONCE THIS IS DONE THERE IS NO GOING BACK. You are stuck with it, and you will live with it. NEVER PUT YOURSELF IN THAT POSITION !!

Unless you live in a $10M+ house your taxes WOULD NOT have increased $550!

EVERY property would be subject to the 0-1mil ad-valorem tax, including properties owned by the "Builder."

There is no union contract negotiated between the VPSD and the County. The County has nothing to do with the VPSD except hold the purse strings (which may turn out to be bad enough).

[Daddymac]

Originally Posted by yankygrl

My taxes would have gone up $40. There was a lot of misinformation and people just didn’t know the facts. Glad I live in an AED neighborhood and I’m an RN

Where do you live to see a $40 increase.
$124 + .075 of you homes value!!
Now do the math again!!

[Daddymac]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Unless you live in a $10M+ house your taxes WOULD NOT have increased $550!

EVERY property would be subject to the 0-1mil ad-valorem tax, including properties owned by the "Builder."

There is no union contract negotiated between the VPSD and the County. The County has nothing to do with the VPSD except hold the purse strings (which may turn out to be bad enough).

They give you the website to go to. You put in your address and it will calculate your taxes. Go back and do your homework.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Daddymac

Where do you live to see a $40 increase.
$124 + .075 of you homes value!!
Now do the math again!!

No, the current cost is $124 + 0.71mil of your taxable value.

The new rate would have been $124 + 0.75mil of improved value + 0.1mil of taxable value.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Daddymac

They give you the website to go to. You put in your address and it will calculate your taxes. Go back and do your homework.

You might want to stop digging now. (probably won't, but should consider it)

The website shows what your cost would have been under the IFD. The website DOES NOT show what your costs are now! The INCREASE would NOT be what the website shows but rather the DIFFERENCE between what the website shows and what you are paying now.

[Daddymac]

[QUOTE=Bill14564;2156553]You might want to stop digging now. (probably won't, but should consider it)

The website shows what your cost would have been under the IFD. The website DOES NOT show what your costs are now! The INCREASE would NOT be what the website shows but rather the DIFFERENCE between what the website shows and what you are paying now.

[ScottFenstermaker]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

No, the current cost is $124 + 0.71mil of your taxable T.

The new rate would have been $124 + 0.75mil of improved value + 0.1mil of taxable value.

None of us know what the real cost of the new district would have been to us because none of us know what the unelected fire-district board members would have decided to do with the tax rate or how much, if at all, the county commission would have reduced our county tax.

Another of MANY facts that none of us know, but the proponents do know: What would the new district have done to the Developer's taxes? (The $10 million cap on taxable value was a nice break for the Developer, but what would the other tax effects have been?) In other words, were we, once again, being asked to subsidize the Developer's business???

The proposed fire district was a pig in a poke being sold to us, and a majority of us said, "Sorry, we are not buying it."

[Daddymac]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

You might want to stop digging now. (probably won't, but should consider it)

The website shows what your cost would have been under the IFD. The website DOES NOT show what your costs are now! The INCREASE would NOT be what the website shows but rather the DIFFERENCE between what the website shows and what you are paying now.

Here the website

[Romad]

Originally Posted by yankygrl

My taxes would have gone up $40. There was a lot of misinformation and people just didn’t know the facts. Glad I live in an AED neighborhood and I’m an RN

CERT, AED program, and Smoke Alarm battery help is funded from the VCDD Amenity budget. $3 million per year, or a little over $4 a month per house.

Ask Don Wiley or another BOCC commissioner if you have questions.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker

None of us know what the real cost of the new district would have been to us because none of us know what the unelected fire-district board members would have decided to do with the tax rate or how much, if at all, the county commission would have reduced our county tax.

Another of MANY facts that none of us know, but the proponents do know: What would the new district have done to the Developer's taxes? (The $10 million cap on taxable value was a nice break for the Developer, but what would the other tax effects have been?) In other words, were we, once again, being asked to subsidize the Developer's business???

The proposed fire district was a pig in a poke being sold to us, and a majority of us said, "Sorry, we are not buying it."

You say "pig in a poke" and I say "cut off your nose to spite your face."

The Developers pay according to the same equation we all would have. Raise my ad-valorem by .1mil and the Developer's ad-valorem increases by .1mil. The ONLY difference: My increase would be about $30 while the Developer's would be $38,600 on ONLY those properties valued at over $10M (and they own thousands of others).

As for knowing real costs: I don't know what my property taxes will be next year; all I know is they change every year in this county. I'm still not packing up to go back to Md - I'm not willing to cut off my nose to spite my face.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Daddymac

Here the website

Yes, and???

Two things you might want to look more closely at:
1. It shows a total of $464.47, not the $550 you wrote in previous messages
2. You should probably hide the address as well as the name.

Also:
You are paying $342 for the VPSD today so your INCREASE could have been $122.50...
EXCEPT
Since the projected 2024 Sumter budget lowers the tax rate by 0.8mils, you would actually be paying only $95 more.