Show us the money
First; Civic associations are useless. They only form another layer of quasi government and in many cases they turn one neighbor against another. You normally see these types of associations in townships where there is limited abilities on the part of the local government to enforce any kind of community standards. In most cities these kinds of organizations are rare and hard to keep people interested in the group. The point here is that there must be some kind of understanding of where this group will head before you plan to meet.
Yosemite Pam; you indicated some time ago that we should merge the city and the township into one unified government. I hear no supporting information from you on why that might be a good idea. As I have heard for years now, people in the township don?’t want to pay the City income tax and they don?’t want take on the City?’s debt being the two major issues.
From the City residents, who are less likely to talk about the issues, they are resentful that they pay high taxes to provide parks and recreation facilities and the township residents use the parks as much as the city residents and they pay only the user fee required for the service they use.
I believe if you look back into the archives of this web site you will see references to a group called Community First. They talked about local traffic problems and our roads. What did they accomplish? The people in the township come up with all of these bright ideas and offer no way to pay for them.
The township uses the Fairfield County Sheriff for law enforcement. I am not aware of any special tax the unincorporated residents pay for this police protection yet the City must provide their own police protection with not only a levy but money transferred out of the general fund. So the question is how do you folks in the Township pay for your police protection since you are now a limited home rule township? If the answer is the Fairfield County Sheriff then the city residents subsidizes your police protection.
Fire protection is another subject. We all pay for this Violet Township Fire department through property taxes. The only people in the entire fire district that your Trustees criticizes is the City and the non-school TIF. They conveniently over look the huge TIF s up at Wal-Mart and the total tax abatements at Canal Pointe. Which in effect the city subsidizes the fire service.
Still on the Fire Department, I have two friends that work for neighboring Central Ohio Fire Departments and they tell me that the equipment our Violet Township continues to buy is over kill. So in your organization tell us all how does the City taxpayers have any control over the budget and what that fire department purchases. Remember that ALL of the Township Trustees live in the unincorporated areas and they do not pay any of the City income taxes. So simply stated there is no over sight ability from the City resident who owns 40% of the assets of the Violet Twp Fire department.
First; Civic associations are useless. They only form another layer of quasi government and in many cases they turn one neighbor against another. You normally see these types of associations in townships where there is limited abilities on the part of the local government to enforce any kind of community standards. In most cities these kinds of organizations are rare and hard to keep people interested in the group. The point here is that there must be some kind of understanding of where this group will head before you plan to meet.
Yosemite Pam; you indicated some time ago that we should merge the city and the township into one unified government. I hear no supporting information from you on why that might be a good idea. As I have heard for years now, people in the township don?’t want to pay the City income tax and they don?’t want take on the City?’s debt being the two major issues.
From the City residents, who are less likely to talk about the issues, they are resentful that they pay high taxes to provide parks and recreation facilities and the township residents use the parks as much as the city residents and they pay only the user fee required for the service they use.
I believe if you look back into the archives of this web site you will see references to a group called Community First. They talked about local traffic problems and our roads. What did they accomplish? The people in the township come up with all of these bright ideas and offer no way to pay for them.
The township uses the Fairfield County Sheriff for law enforcement. I am not aware of any special tax the unincorporated residents pay for this police protection yet the City must provide their own police protection with not only a levy but money transferred out of the general fund. So the question is how do you folks in the Township pay for your police protection since you are now a limited home rule township? If the answer is the Fairfield County Sheriff then the city residents subsidizes your police protection.
Fire protection is another subject. We all pay for this Violet Township Fire department through property taxes. The only people in the entire fire district that your Trustees criticizes is the City and the non-school TIF. They conveniently over look the huge TIF s up at Wal-Mart and the total tax abatements at Canal Pointe. Which in effect the city subsidizes the fire service.
Still on the Fire Department, I have two friends that work for neighboring Central Ohio Fire Departments and they tell me that the equipment our Violet Township continues to buy is over kill. So in your organization tell us all how does the City taxpayers have any control over the budget and what that fire department purchases. Remember that ALL of the Township Trustees live in the unincorporated areas and they do not pay any of the City income taxes. So simply stated there is no over sight ability from the City resident who owns 40% of the assets of the Violet Twp Fire department.
