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The Executive Committee of Local 2926 invited the candidates to speak to their members. They video taped the interviews but refuse to release the full unedited versions. Instead they provide some snippets and added some commentary. I've linked to their post here so you can view it. Update: They responded timely and have now posted full versions of the challenger videos Update2: They have posted the incumbent videos as well. I've embedded them below also.
In the video at 2 min 50 seconds you can hear
In just the past couple meetings the untrustworthy have tried to hide from us that the 2016 budget has a $651,651 deficit by calling it spending from carryover funds. On Sept 14, 2014 they passed a $2.9 million dollar budget for the Fire Station that included the cost of the land acquisition then tried to hide from you that the budget is now $3.1 million. The discussion on the inclusion of the property in the budget was clear. Last meeting instead of telling us that we could not build the fire station on $2.9 million but instead we needed $3.1 million they tried to tell us that they were double counting the property cost and told us that we should subtract that $192,000 from the budget. Despite the overwhelming evidence otherwise, the untrustworthy told us that they never meant to include the cost of the property in the budget for building the fire station.
I highly recommend you watch the video produced by the uninformed then
Make your comments through the Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/iaff2926 and in the comment section at the end of this post.
Election November 2015This is the statement made by the Executive Committee introducing the video. "The following video portrays the poor ideologies of "Team Huber" and their misconceptions regarding a variety of topics within the city as it relates to the upcoming November election. This video will explain why The Huber Heights Firefighters has endorsed the current incumbents in November's election. We hope you agree with our insight. Thank you."
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Saturday, October 24, 2015
This is the unedited video of Mr. Otto from the Q&A session.The original video was broken down into segments in order to clearly explain the concerns for the members of Local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Sunday, October 25, 2015
This is the unedited version of Ms Vargo who has the support of local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Monday, October 26, 2015
Mr. ShawThis is the unedited version for Mr. Shaw. The original video was broken down into segments in order to clearly explain issues concerned to the members of Local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Sunday, October 25, 2015
This is the unedited version of Mrs. Dale who has the support of local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Monday, October 26, 2015
Mrs. SmithThis is the unedited version for Mrs. Smith. The original video was broken down into segments in order to clearly explain the concerns of the members of Local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Sunday, October 25, 2015
This is the unedited version of Ms Kaleps who has the support of local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Monday, October 26, 2015
Mr. StanThis is the unedited version for Mr. Stan. The original video was broken down into segments in order to clearly explain the concerns by the members of Local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Sunday, October 25, 2015
This is the unedited version of Mr Lyons who has the support of local 2926.
Posted by Huber Heights Professional Firefighters Local 2926 on Monday, October 26, 2015
Here are some other recent articles that I'm hoping prompts you to support my efforts in Council by voting for the challengers in this election: Richard Shaw, Glenn Otto, Richard Stan and Janell Smith
DDN article concerning staff at General Council Meetings
Recent videos from Local 2926 interviews
Ed Lyons - Thank you council for a billion dollars!
Election message for the residents of Huber Heights
There are reasons I like Richard Stan for Ward 6 Council Representative
Letter to Ward 6 residents
Comments
Fire Station support - yes - but I've never supported the 2025 plan
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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$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.
Last edit: by Thomas McMasters
Lack of knowledge?
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.Â
Thanks for participating in the discussion
Last edit: by Thomas McMasters