The last question. For those who live in Marion or Lake county, how much do you pay for fire protection? How much is your maximum assessment and have you received any notification of the assessment increase like us who live in Sumter within last 5 years or so?

I read the Executive Summary https://www.sumtercountyfl.gov/Agend...1?fileID=42674 They are planning to remove most of the fire service funding from the general fund so the $360 is likely next year!

The real question here is: Why isn't the Developer paying a fire impact fee for each new house he builds?

The massive expansion of The Villages will require a massive number of new fire stations and equipment. Via a fire impact fee, the cost of those should be borne by The Developer and, to the extent the cost is passed on in the form of higher prices, by the new residents. These costs should not be offloaded on to the present residents of Sumter County.

Because the Developer had 5 puppets on the Sumter County Commission for years, he has been successful in offloading on to the present residents the infrastructure costs of his expansion of The Villages. Thus, we had a 25% property tax hike, and the Developer's sweetheart impact fee remained untouched. None of this is mentioned in today's front-page Daily Sun article by the Developer's Minister of Propaganda David R. Corder.

Enough is enough!

The key word here is emergencies. I have no problem with that as they arrive in just a few minutes, the ambulances can be well over 20 minutes.

When did we here in Sumter receive a notification of a assessment increase? I must be missing something as all I have read about is increasing the maximum "allowable" assessment.

I guess you want the developer to pay for one's oatmeal too.

With sugar on top.

Doesn't the developer already build the fire stations and then turn them over to the CDD? I thought I read that somewhere, is it not true?

"Massive number of new fire stations?" Just how many new fire stations constitute a "Massive number?"

Your song has already gotten old and I haven't been here that long.

:bigbow::bigbow:

No, I just want him to pay for his own county infrastructure instead of having his puppet County Commissioners require the present residents to do so. You disagree with that?

Today's challenge. Can we get through an entire sentence without the words puppet or sweetheart?

I am just amazed how you think you have so much more to offer than the rest of us mere mortals. Why do you hate a successful business so much?

That’s what I thought when the added 350 new homes in my district. Wrong taxes still when up over 200 dollars.

And drink.

I am not the issue here, and I admire successful businesses-- unless they expect the taxpayers to subsidize their operations-- which is what has been going on in Sumter County.

The issue here is who should pay for the county infrastructure necessitated by the Developer's massive expansion of The Villages. That was the issue in the last county commissioner election. In that election, the voters decided, when they booted the Developer's puppets out by a 2-to-1 margin, that the infrastructure should be paid for by the Developer.