Why are you against a tiered tax system?? Do you think the home owner should pay the same rate as Wal-Mart?

You don't need to a fan of John Assalone to know that the CCFD is being run by a gang of liars and thieves.

Easy" old" your hatred for the Firefighters is showing thru. Wait until you have a heart attack, it won't be god you begging to save your life!!!

"Old" when you call someone Liars and thieves, I think you need to explain??

Liars include an $800,000 "error" in their budget for two years after the "error" has been exposed.
Thieves are those who expect their neighbors to make up this "error" out of their hard earned money.
Get it?

Guthrie's a (former) firefighter; what else would you expect?

Since I am a taxpayer residing in the Central Coventry Fire District, I decided to take your advice and read the text of the bill. I would suggest that everybody do the same, and read for themselves, rather than accept your half truth interpretation of what the bill actually does. You conveniently choose to omit that ANY supplemental tax imposition would require "a majority vote of the electors of the district" to be enacted. To your point regarding appropriations, this is the common and accepted practice of every city an/or town in the State, it has just never been previously codified for fire districts. All it does is level fund, the exception being that the only increase must be used for to pay bonded indebtedness, which would have required voter approval to execute the bonds in question in the first place. And I would submit that this DOES have the tax payer's best interest in mind; the resdiential tax payers, who would otherwise be subsidizing the protective services that cover commercial and industrial occupancies that are paying the same rate as a 3 bedroom, 1 bath ranch.

QuidnickCrusader....does a" majority vote of the electors of the district mean" all the residents or the current board of directors at CCF. Why wouldn't all the residents of the district be allowed to vote on these issues that affect them. And what is next, it looks in addition to a supplemental tax, we are being set up for a fire tax on our vehicles. I have no problem with a multi rate tax system as long as it is approved by the ALL the residents of the fire district and not by this back door BS. I think the residents of CCF currently provide adequate funding to run the fire district. It is over generous pays, benefits, pensions, overtime as well as minimum staffing and a no layoff policy that has caused the current crisis.

Again RIPP, READ THE BILL! " Electors of the district" means the registered voters of the district. The bill calls for voter approval of the items described, and no where does it empower the board of directors, comissioners, etc. to unilaterally make those decisions. To your point regarding salaries, pensions, overtime, minimum staffing, etc. as the cause of the financial crisis, you are plain wrong. If you had bothered to actually pay attention to Mr. Land's presentation back in December, he clearly stated and showed the evidence to concur, that the crisis was the result of a clerical error, plain and simple. Now where I believe we can agree, is that the affects of that error were exacerbated by inept and incompetent job performance by those with the fiduciary responsibilities at the management level. In that vein, I'm really interested to see what the State Police investigation will bring to light, and hopefully bring someone to justice.

Is the $200,200 "error" a result of drinking "Johnny's Juice" or is the result of fraudulent behavior by principles of the CCFD?

So we have to listen to inept clueless fireman john again. The $800,000 write down by the tax collector was part of the problem and your chief Seltzer and his board chose not to inform the taxpayers'. They didn't even inform the treasurer so it wan't him keeping it quiet. As to the loss of vehicle taxes, the board merely reallocated the lost revenue to the homeowners. RIPP is correct about the mismanagement and overspending. It is not just the now famous $800,000 shortfall but the ridiculous overspending that casued these problems. The taxpayers had to pay over a million in overtime so the firefighters could take 21 sick days and 4 weeks of vacation every year. Where is the fairness? Part of the problem was a chief without a leash and a board without a clue.

If you really want to be informed, go to the special master's website and read the budget he's presenting dummy. You're still the one who's stupid and misinformed john and you'll probably stay that way.