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Issue 9
Issue 9, if passed, and if it would have precluded any JEDD's could have been corrected easily by another charter change that I'm sure ALL of council could have supported.
That piece of garbage our ladder climbers to higher office passed, if accepted was a CONTRACT, not one that could have been broken. They lost the faith of the public and the public spoke up. Only Jeff's $1800 mailing at the last minute full of lies convinced people the money train was coming full speed to Pickerington.
And there is NO DATA to support this RT. 33 myth. For the last 15 years every elected official or wannabe has been talking about 33 and what have we seen to date. Lot's of promises and nothing delivered.
Laughing all the way to the bank!
Keep pushing your rubber stampers but there's a lot of us not buying what you're selling.
By Laughing
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Tell the WHOLE TRUTH B.S.
Dear Shallow Pockets:
Or should I just call you shallow? I think you just proved the Pointe (play on words) of Brian Wisniewski and Ted Hackworth. Of the $117,694.53 how much comes into the city of Pickerington? Clearly this is strictly Canal Winchester's 22.5% income tax sharing with Violet Township.
Now big boy tell the world, since you are so brilliant how much is abated in property taxes? I believe the bragging point is there has been OHHH we are making so much money through this cooperation. That cooperation is on the backs of the Pickerington City taxpayers folks. The Lancaster Eagle Gazette said they only collected $1,600 in property taxes from Canal Pointe last year. I am sure they called to verify their facts.
So who gets screwed here? The unincorporated taxpayers gets an additional $117,694.53 added to their general fund what does the City taxpayers get added to their general fund from this CEDA?
ZERO!!!!!
In fact the city tax payers then must make up the difference in property taxes to the Violet Fire Department. The average price of a City home is over $200,000. So on average the city tax payers and home owners chip in nearly $500 per household for the Violet fire department and Canal Pointe chips in NOTHING!!! and if we really wanted to check it out I would think the special equipment required there is more than is required for a residential fire.
Hold on there in more. The City water users chipped in over $4 Million to expand the Pickerington water plant to make this project possible yet in 2006 they said the city could not be part of the CEDA.
If you do the math Mr. Sauer you will find that the sewer tap fees for Sycamore Creek and Fox Glen have paid Canal Winchester for their 2.5 MGD expansion of their sewer plant to make the Canal Pointe possible. But Pickerington can not be part of the CEDA.
Finally the City taxpayers have invested over $ 8 Million in widening of Diley Road to make Canal Pointe and Violet Pointe possible and they still can't be part of the CEDA.
When are the stupid elected officials in Pickerington going to wise up. These trustees are playing you all like a drum. Year after year you continue to subsidize the township residents and they keep going back for more. They have resorted to sending their carpetbaggers residents into the city to run for office now so you can keep your streak alive.
Please don't elect these carpetbaggers and this Fix FOursome.
By Transfer of wealth and tired
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OUR fire department
Next point is conforming the boundaries. For those that want to fly off on some tangent and become alarmist then this is for you.
First conforming the city boundaries and creating a paper township is one issue. Having the city take over the fire service in the city is a second issue and they are separate. In other words without conforming the boundaries the City of Pickerington could create its own fire department.
Since the right to conform the city's boundaries was given up in a 2002 annexation then the second option of creating a paper township under current state law is prohibited.
So I believe what Mr. Hackworth was doing is his duty to find out where all of the City taxpayer money goes and what benefit the City taxpayers get from their hard earned money.
Without ANY REPRESENTATION to the VIOLET TOWNSHIP fire department the City taxpayers pay around 7 mills in property taxes. The City council has NO SAY in tax abatements a Canal Pointe or 30 year TIFs like what was used in Reynoldsburg for the Wal-Mart store. Clearly the township trustee have never represented the city taxpayers despite the fact that these taxpayers make up over 40% of the township residents.
Beside the 7 mills for the fire department the city tax payers pay a .6 mill levy directly to the township. That is over $225,000 per year in property taxes and the city taxpayers have no say in how that money is spent.
So Mr. Sauer if you are going to run on cooepration with the township like you claimed you were in the paper then you better darn well find out where our tax money is going and how can we recover some of those dollars. Rolling over for the township is not going to get it with me.
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Once and for all
The fabled St Rt 33 grow that is supposedly going to pave the streets of Lancaster, Carroll, Pickerington, Canal Winchester and Violet Township is a myth.
It does not exist. It never has and it never will. Look at Lancaster for evidence. Old 33 (Memorial Drive) used to be a thriving area of commerce...about 25 years ago. Now it's just boarded up store fronts, pawn shops, tanning salons and chinese fast food. Is that what our children will look back upon in Pickerington and see in the years to come?
If what has been allowed to happen to Lancaster because of St Rt 33, then I say no thanks. if Jeff Fox-Fix thinks is the way to go it makes me wonder how many developers have their claws into him.
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