Over the years we have lived in many areas of the country. In smaller towns and cities we always received a note in the mail with a request to support our local "fire district". We also bought tickets to the chili suppers, bingo nights and chicken roasts. It is a way to keep our fire stations and staff trained and funded. Sure most of the team members were volunteers, but they were also our neighbors. Without funding there is no way these professionals can do their job to keep us safe.
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Okay, help me to understand something here. If the fire department and other city services are being paid through property taxes and there are large parts of the city which don't pay property taxes yet depend on those services, how it is wrong to charge them a reasonable fee? If the fees are more than property taxes or actually not going to the fire department or other city services then I can see how it is a scam, but if it is a legitimate fee, especially in areas where property values are depreciated, why it is wrong to pay it? Everyone needs the fire department and these guys get paid a paltry amount as is. And heaven forbid, there is a fire, it can cost tens of thousands to extinguish. Why would you expect the fire department to soak that cost by itself? You're essentially getting city services for free. Is there something I'm missing?
Deb Fuller
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Hayes Scriven <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have heard of this happening in college towns. They try to get the
> colleges to pay their fair share.
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> They were going to do something like this in Northfield but he Council
> decided against it.
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> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Cindy Boyer
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>> We received a question from a historic site/historical society in a
>> local town. As expected, they do not pay real estate taxes. However
>> the area has instituted a “fire district” with connected fees, rather
>> than have the fire department expenses included in property tax. The
>> historical society has been required to pay this fee which, of course, keeps rising each year.
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>> They consider this a “hidden real estate tax” and wondered if other
>> historic sites or NFP have had to deal with this, and if anyone has
>> been successful in fighting this in their area.
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>> Cindy Boyer
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