It was the most outrageous claim I’d ever heard on this subject. And I am pretty sure the incorporated FD was represented by a legislator, but I just cannot remember which one…probably Bosma. He has no ethical trouble representing folks who have legislative agendas.

Harrison Ullman was right.

A few yrs. ago, the Wayne trustee, whose name now escapes me, tried to meddle in the fire department. It’s a little fiefdom out there…they have their own training academy, a huge office building…all the trappings of a Territory Worth Protecting.

Anywho: that trustee campaigned on fire department reform, got elected, and then the fire department “incorporated.” Their internal leadership actually had the gall to tell taxpayers the property and equipment were not owned by taxpayers, but the corporation.

I could be wrong, but I believe their attorney was a legislator.

The Wayne FD grows huge cajones. Always has. Baird likes the big cars he and his brother get…and he learned township budgeting at the knee of Center’s master tutors.

In short: it’s an attitude, Abdul. They’re entitled. Ask them.

As for Young–when will Republicans realize he’s only one shade brighter than the Burtons?

Not to be picky, but this is a request for a spending increase, not necessarily a tax increase. At least (maybe) not this year.

The key will be whether or not this additional appropriation will be made from an existing fund balance in the Fire Protection Territory Fund (surplus funds).

Nonetheless, it’s clear that the township’s fire department is more expensive than the 2009 appropriation (and likely the 2009 property tax levy, whenever the state gets around to certifying it).

Bottom line: this doesn’t bode well for future township fire protection tax rates in Wayne Township. Rates that already went up something like 160% just a few years ago.

Money they are “saving for a rainy day.”