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I said would do two (2) items from my "Platform for Tomorrow" this week. The following goes back to a City Ordnance (729.04), dating back to 13 June 1974. How many are getting it now? Come 1 January 2017, I will try to make it partially right.
The following is the latest on my "Platform for Tomorrow" that I am putting out to the Residents/ Voters/ Taxpayers of Vienna. I have modified it to reflect the supposed "reduction" in Fire Fees that are alleged to be reduced at the 08/ 25/ 2016 City Council Meeting.
8. Initiate a program to locate all City Residents who have turned 65 in the past 10 years and refund the $3./month that has been allowed to them for many years but is/ was not so advertised for example on the monthly billing or noted on their Utility Record when signing up for service. Not sure how many are now getting it, but pretty sure not enough?
Based on the supposed reduction in the Fire Fee on 08/25/2016 it will instead be ½ of the remaining Fire/ Police Fee as approved going forward for 65 and older Residents.
This is going to be tougher than the Tax Refund in number 12. The Fire Fee while allegedly going down at the City level will be increased soon with the new County Fire Board Fee (Tax) This can be dealt with through a monthly credit, a flat refund OR some combination of both based on the age of the Account Holder. This is a MAXIMUM return of $360 per account.
The "New" adjusted amount will be dependent on what the new "Fire/Police Fee" may still be?
Good question is WHY is the City reducing the City Fire Fee now? The County Commission is still not ready to go with it. Or at least I have seen nothing to say the effective date? Oh, wait! It is an Election year and the City is feeling the heat for sticking it to the folks for at least 12 years under two Mayors and now almost four years of wild spending under the current administration plus the WHOLE bunch is up re-election too. The point to remember, is they could have done something for you folks for YEARS and did nothing except finally maybe a buck for cable fees at the first of the year.
Have had a bunch of likes on my site in the past days and some are from I don't know where, but the folks like what they read. One lady asked me two days ago after I noted my concerns on what is going to happen on the 30th on whether I would be on the Ballot in November. I said I think so, but some really funny things happen on 29th Street and I will not know till the 30th. Found she lives in Vienna.
I have a great deal of sympathy for the poor people in those Counties who are struggling to get back on their feet after all the flooding. Seems like they fell off the grid the moment the Olympics began and then came the disaster in Louisiana. And the folks down there are raising a squall because they don't feel getting any support. Up here, both Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton know West Virginia is not going Democratic in November so to Hell with the needy here. Should be a lot more going on in Louisiana since they have more Electoral Votes to get than the five we have here.
Was told I wasted my money putting out money/ effort to advertise some in the paper now. It was too early I was told. A little bit yes; but folks, the kids going back to school after Labor Day time is long gone. It is not likely many of you were or will be on vacation the rest of this month as school has been pushed back to what the 11th or even the 15th up North?
And I don't have the luxury of all the free Election Campaigning that is going to Mr. Rapp, Mr. Deem and Mr. Azinger the Younger from the media. I PAY FOR MY OWN. Don't take any contributions and all I ask is a fair review of what I wish to do for the City of Vienna as a whole. It will not take you very long to start seeing the difference between myself and the other two. I am showing a Platform that has a dozen items, not just an early reduction in something that is actually going up again shortly. "Truth in Advertising" folks, that is what it is.
Mr. Rapp seems to have an agreement with the media that every time he takes a deep breathe there is a camera and/or a microphone in his face? Too bad the media does not cover real Vienna News?
Mr. Deem got his free Election coverage twice now in three weeks. On 31 July, he got a letter in telling one and all what a great job the Incumbents did on the 2016- 2017 Budget. Then here he is again on the 21st of August with the paper letting him do an op-ed on again what great work the Incumbents did. Go back and it will be the same for Mr. Azinger the Younger; letters and op- eds. We are due or over due for the third musketeer, Mr. Kelly to extoll all he did to protect us from the enemy (who ever that is ?). Years ago, there was an old Pogo Poge cartoon that stated: "We have met the enemy and it is us". I would suspect in dealing with these "Professional Politicians" there may be a lot of Truth in that?
Problem with the lad (Mr. Azinger the Younger), is that he fell into the letters trap with not only Mr. Chambers the Only but also another writer by the name of Mr. Stanley. Both eating or will his lunch as I said earlier. Can not see you folks getting sucked into any other term for anything with the Younger?
See where the City of P'burg is still on the road to donate their old fire truck to Waverly. Hope it works out for them. Maybe they plan to use it for spare parts/ accessories?
Was a big to do when the French folks came in here and did water samples on our C8. They were alleged to have only sent it to one lab in Europe for testing and thereby it was not a serious testing as should have been done with multiple labs. Mr. Brooks just pooh poohed their conclusions and he is as you know the Guru on C8. But missing in action since Mr. Dietzler got their properties annexed into the City?
Yet, when the new Filtration System was coming on line, the water was only tested by one lab in the State of Colorado and it was said good enough. Water is cleaner than the driven snow and we could drink now out of a mud puddle as long as the water came from a city pipe.
Now I am not very smart, so may I ask this? If the testing of water by one (1) lab in Europe is not good enough; how can the same single test from a lab in a State where the good folks go around in a pot induced cloud all day be better? I don't get it- Marijuana versus snails?
As I ask all the time, I would like you to read, think and talk to your friends, neighbors and family. You do not have to agree with me, but think on what you have received in the past 12- 16 years? You have two other choices- Old Style Politicos/ Special Interests or me with my "Vision" for ALL. 'nuff said'.
Asking for your Votes folks "Change is in the air".
(Paid for by the Candidate- Lawrence J. Wilson for Mayor of Vienna).