WHY NOW???
Posted on March 4, 2010 | Email This!
Impact fees have been in effect for over a year. During that time the economy has been worse, not better. So why take down the fees?
The impact fees instituted last year were a shadow of what they should have been. The break down of the fees tells a very interesting story. 136.00. for library, 375.00 for recreation, 918.00 for fire, 10.48 emergency responses, 96.68 for Sheriff, 498.00 for roads, 7.21 for emergency management, and 61.31 for administration for a total of $2,105.25 per house.
What the figures do not show is money for building water and sewer services and no money for storm water run off. We (the taxpayers) have already paid for 6 studies and plans (est. cost 750,000.00) and yet the County Commission did not put in one penny for these vital services. Not to mention $100.000.00 for the consultant.
So the question is “what’s going on”.
Sandy Sez:
In my opinion the Commission was only going through the motions when they passed impact fees last year. They put it in for show. Nothing was going on so they knew that their friends the developers would not have to pay very much. I suspect that someone has a large project coming up and even the 2105.25 pittance is an annoyance to whoever is complaining and asking for the fees to be taken down.
I need your vote in the upcoming primary. I promise that I will fight for real impact fees. Fees that will protect the taxpayers from outrageous tax increases in the future.
Sandy Feller
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance”
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Mr. Feller..I read your letter to the editor this morning & although it was brief, it was concise & to the point…& necessary! I’m not aware of your history within Camden County & only now have I taken the time to do some research on you before putting “my foot in it.” While what I have found is somewhat short, it touts mostly the words that you’re over the hill, you’re time has come & gone, the usual comments made by those who can’t see that history is repeating itself.
I am a child of the 40′s & far from dead mentally. I admit to forgetting more than I once did, of wearing a hearing aide & to having had cataract surgery. I will NEVER wear a size 10 again & won’t lose sleep over it. But, what I am losing sleep over, as is my husband, is the Obama administration & how quickly he’s pushing his agenda through with no regard to the people of this country. I also must share with you that I’m not bi-partisan & have never believed in that type of government. Nor do I believe in the electoral vote but believe that every vote should be counted & should count. Old fashioned perhaps but as I look around me & realize that when some ignorant soul decides to pull the plug of technology & there will be no one left who can read, write or even know what a piece of paper & pencil is about, I fear for all of us. This country is & always has been about the PEOPLE & that’s what has always kept us proud & grand. But, we now resort to bowing & scraping to powers of other countries, of taking away the privileges of our seniors & the rights of our people. I’m all for sending a bunch of housewives to Washington who can manage a household budget, clean house & turn this country around. I’m tired of trying keeping up with the Jones’s, I just want my country back on track.
I’m venting & apologize for that but I encourage you to keep up the good fight. Be as outspoken as you need to be to get the job done properly & maybe, just maybe, a beginning can be made in the small county of Camden. God knows, it MUST start somewhere!