Recent videos from Local 2926 interviews

News: Recent videos from Local 2926 interviews

The original post is  below and also the original controversial video.  Watching the full interviews are more informative so if you are time limited skip the write-up and the first video and watch the full interviews first.  They can be found below the first video. 

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The Executive Committee of Local 2926 invited the candidates to speak to their members.  They video…

Lack of knowledge?

Mr. Mayor,
Pointing fingers is never a good thing to do when you are misinformed. You have stated that firefighter Kevin Foley is stating bad information to counter what the candidates are stating. Well Mr Mayor, you yourself are very misinformed. That was not firefighter Kevin Foley making those very accurate and very compelling statements. That was BC Kevin Foley making those statements. There is a very big difference between the two. So before you decide to try to make the fire department look bad and are making slanderous comments against the wrong person, make sure you yourself have the correct information. 

Thanks for participating in the discussion

I'll make the correction

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$2 a week or just 28 cents a day or about a cent an hour


Using the example in the video, the average Huber Heights family pays an additional $2 a week with the additional .25%

If a .25% results in a $2 a week increase in taxes this equates to an additional $104 a year.  This families total income would be $41,600 per year.  With a total city income tax rate of 2.25% this calculates to $936 a year.  
 

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Fire Station support - yes - but I've never supported the 2025 plan

I did a quick search of this site:

This first post predates the 2025 plan so you can see I've always been against the promise to lock the city into just providing current levels of services.  On April 6, 2014 I wrote:

How about Police and Fire services?  Is it really realistic to ask for a levy that does no more than maintain the same as we have today?  I don't think it is realistic to believe we won't have an increase in salaries for the next ten years.  Especially, since we all know that there has to be additional fire services available for the north side of the city.  Even if we don't ask for the money to pay for those now, we should have a plan that states when we believe we will be adding that fire station, how much money it will take to run and the way we think that money will be generated.   That way if it turns out it will take an additional levy to pay for that plan, people know about it now and are not be surprised by it then.

On March 16, 2014 I wrote:

4.  If it turns out the income tax collections do contribute more than the rest of the city for police and fire services when are we going to show appreciation and start building the fire station that belongs up North? 

It wasn't until the 2025 plan in May of 2014 that the rest of Council picked up my call to build the Fire Station and then it was conditional on passing the levy.  

If I get time to do a more thorough search I'll bet I'll be able to find campaign references to the need to build as well.  I expect calls before March might be within meeting minutes.  

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