Few changes in Fire/EMS negotiations
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To the editor:
We all hoped, and were given to believe that with a change in Hillsboro’s administration, we would finally have someone there we could shake hands with over the Fire/EMS issues.
We hoped we could finally stabilize that part of our skimpy township budgets and take a breath or two of relief before we have to start worrying about things like AEP, the loss of Local Government Funds, costs of road work, Social Security and Obama’s insurance changes. Unfortunately, all we have now is the same blarney the city of Hillsboro has abused us with for at least three years.
Their so-called “negotiation” is the same as always. We get a lousy, poorly explained “my-way-or-the-highway” contract with hocus-pocus numbers – again. And then the so-called “discussion,” with the city ignoring us and telling us (falsely) that we have no choice – again.
And, just like last June and also November of 2010, they try to spook us by shoving us up against a short deadline – again. Besides their abracadabra $27 rate, they can’t even offer to lock it in for a few years so our financial waters and our rightful feelings of mistrust and resentment toward the city and HFD can settle a bit for us. C’mon, folks! Nothing has changed with the city and it isn’t going to.
If we let the city succeed with those tactics this time, they will use them on us every time they want more spending-spree money. That $27 per person will be $127 per person in three or four years.
It’s time to stop listening to the city. We’ve given them a dozen second chances and they haven’t shown even the slightest ability to, or interest in, a mutually beneficial arrangement. They couldn’t care less about our concerns. They just demand that we pay for their new firehouse and then they’ll want us to pay for firehouse No. 2.
No matter what it costs we need be sensible enough to go and set up our Fire/EMS service with other providers, even if it costs a bit more, or a lot more, than $27 per person. And we need to do it now. Cheap “economy” is often no economy at all and our continual strife with the city of Hillsboro is a classic example.
We need to band together to get away from the city of Hillsboro and use our money to buy the services and the peace of mind and financial safety of knowing we aren’t captive to a city that has, and will, use us for an ATM as much as they think they can get away with.
Sincerely,
Jim Moore
Jackson Township[[In-content Ad]]
We all hoped, and were given to believe that with a change in Hillsboro’s administration, we would finally have someone there we could shake hands with over the Fire/EMS issues.
We hoped we could finally stabilize that part of our skimpy township budgets and take a breath or two of relief before we have to start worrying about things like AEP, the loss of Local Government Funds, costs of road work, Social Security and Obama’s insurance changes. Unfortunately, all we have now is the same blarney the city of Hillsboro has abused us with for at least three years.
Their so-called “negotiation” is the same as always. We get a lousy, poorly explained “my-way-or-the-highway” contract with hocus-pocus numbers – again. And then the so-called “discussion,” with the city ignoring us and telling us (falsely) that we have no choice – again.
And, just like last June and also November of 2010, they try to spook us by shoving us up against a short deadline – again. Besides their abracadabra $27 rate, they can’t even offer to lock it in for a few years so our financial waters and our rightful feelings of mistrust and resentment toward the city and HFD can settle a bit for us. C’mon, folks! Nothing has changed with the city and it isn’t going to.
If we let the city succeed with those tactics this time, they will use them on us every time they want more spending-spree money. That $27 per person will be $127 per person in three or four years.
It’s time to stop listening to the city. We’ve given them a dozen second chances and they haven’t shown even the slightest ability to, or interest in, a mutually beneficial arrangement. They couldn’t care less about our concerns. They just demand that we pay for their new firehouse and then they’ll want us to pay for firehouse No. 2.
No matter what it costs we need be sensible enough to go and set up our Fire/EMS service with other providers, even if it costs a bit more, or a lot more, than $27 per person. And we need to do it now. Cheap “economy” is often no economy at all and our continual strife with the city of Hillsboro is a classic example.
We need to band together to get away from the city of Hillsboro and use our money to buy the services and the peace of mind and financial safety of knowing we aren’t captive to a city that has, and will, use us for an ATM as much as they think they can get away with.
Sincerely,
Jim Moore
Jackson Township[[In-content Ad]]