Pickerington Area Taxpayers Alliance

What happens to the areas within the city of Pickerington that wouldn't be able to be conformed into the new paper township? Would 911 be able to accurately direct the calls in time should there be a fire or medical emergency?

Has anybody looked into this?

If it costs lives, the cost may be way too high.

System is adaptable

An example of what you are describing is Spring Creek up at Milnor and Refugee. It is part in the township and part in the city. A street might go 340, 360, 12996, 12998 if that is where the boundaries break.

The city could have made the houses renumbered to minimize the adaptation but the manager was too soft on that. What ends up happening is that the police and FD go house to house and calibrate.

Please explain

I don't understand what it means to calibrate. Can you please explain it to me?

Thanks.

Dan

First you have been listening to the trustees too much here. The City of Pickerington does not need to conform it boundaries and form a paper township to form its own fire department or contract for fire services.

The second point is that the entire city can conform its boundaries I am not sure where that started. In other words the city could remove all of the township under Pickerington. Even the new annexation law allows the city to remove or conform it boundaries. I do not believe there have been any annexations since the 2001 annexation law was enacted.

I think the previous poster below on the fire department budgets or costs was illustrating that we could get fire service at a lower cost.