Nairb Notneb Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 A group of seven people (I being one of them) have banned together and are forming a political action committee to basically watchdog our county and town council. Mainly our town council. Our town is a small, tourist town in Florida with a population of about 6,700 people. It has a town council (5 seats) and has a town manager that is hired (and fired) by the town council alone. October is budget time here. The town proposed a budget increase from 10 million to 13 million, an over 30% increase. Yet our taxes were not going up according to them. You see our property values went up and yet our millage rates stayed the same ($1.00 per $1,000). Technically the town did not increase the taxes, but our taxes did increase by about 13% this year. We fought it. The 30% budget increase was not needed. We went to the budget meetings and voiced our opinions. We contacted our town council members and wrote letters to the editors of the local newspapers. Our recommendations were to roll back the millage rate to $0.87 and to cut back the budget to its original state. At the final budget meeting, the council voted unanimously to go with these recommendations. Our voices were heard and we were able to make changes and influence our local government. It can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LightNinja Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 You are not the firsts who did some kind of this...just study some history. Actually i think everyone knows how to influence but anyway nice for your town Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Knight of Keno Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 And now you can ask yourself. Does anyone care. Well, do they, punk? *Skips away after his merry little comeback post* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZBomber Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by Darth Tepe And now you can ask yourself. Does anyone care. Well, do they, punk? *Skips away after his merry little comeback post* It's funny because you're younger than him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RpTheHotrod Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Hey now...be careful Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTV2 Posted October 12, 2004 Share Posted October 12, 2004 Originally posted by ZBomber It's funny because you're younger than him. O BURN!! Lol I'm just kidding, just sounds funny:p :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nairb Notneb Posted October 13, 2004 Author Share Posted October 13, 2004 That's what I get for not posting this in the senate where the intelligent people post I guess. My bad. You should care though. When you start to complain about the government and how it stinks and that there is nothing you can do about you will be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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