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And just when you thought it couldn't get worse.... Part 2
As I referred to in my initial post about Nolanville, TX, it seems this was an understatement. A follow up story from Austin, probably had to be tamed down.
Angered residents sparked the special meeting to reinstate the department after Mayor Emma McCullough told the department that the city couldn't afford to keep them on the payroll.
"[It's] a little un-nerving, just because of the simple fact that if they don't have the gas to get to my house to put out a fire then, I'm going to be a little upset," Sims Fanning said.
"We were invited today to be a part of this community, and to take action, and give our input, but how can you decide on important things when we are left out of the realm," the former assistant city clerk, Candid Landis, said.
It seems a few months before this battle, the town of Nolanville was wishing to extend their extraterritorial boundaries. The catch is, part of the territory they want to annex, would infringe on land claimed by at least one of the towns which were the Mayor's "mutual aid" backup plan. Now that town will file suit against Nolanville.
If they (Nolanville) could not afford to keep a fire department what makes them think they could handle more jurisdiction? Most of the area in question is farm or ranch land, which is usually tax exempt, so I don't see the revenue being there to help them.
But it it might make an interesting soap opera.
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=248574&SecID=2
Angered residents sparked the special meeting to reinstate the department after Mayor Emma McCullough told the department that the city couldn't afford to keep them on the payroll.
"[It's] a little un-nerving, just because of the simple fact that if they don't have the gas to get to my house to put out a fire then, I'm going to be a little upset," Sims Fanning said.
"We were invited today to be a part of this community, and to take action, and give our input, but how can you decide on important things when we are left out of the realm," the former assistant city clerk, Candid Landis, said.
It seems a few months before this battle, the town of Nolanville was wishing to extend their extraterritorial boundaries. The catch is, part of the territory they want to annex, would infringe on land claimed by at least one of the towns which were the Mayor's "mutual aid" backup plan. Now that town will file suit against Nolanville.
If they (Nolanville) could not afford to keep a fire department what makes them think they could handle more jurisdiction? Most of the area in question is farm or ranch land, which is usually tax exempt, so I don't see the revenue being there to help them.
But it it might make an interesting soap opera.
http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=248574&SecID=2
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Comment by BillySFCVFD on August 7, 2009 at 10:37am
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I say strip Nolanville of it's incorporation status and make it an unincorporated part of the County. Local control is usually more efficent but not here. Nolanville's citizens and anyone traveling through deserve better. TCSS
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Comment by Oldman on August 6, 2009 at 12:31pm
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yup!
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Comment by Art "ChiefReason" Goodrich on August 6, 2009 at 12:22pm
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You forgot "Y" for You will be hearing from my attorney AND union rep.
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Comment by Reg Mathis on August 6, 2009 at 11:43am
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I guess we need to add a new acronym for the 911 dispatchers:
T-Too bad
S-So sorry!
T-That sucks!
W-Wish there was something we could do..
C-Call the mayor, maybe she can help
C-Can't help you, I've just been laid off.
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Nothing wrong with "broad brushing" Chief. Truth hurts.
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You have deer ticks, wood ticks and politicks.
It's just another parasite.
Wait; I just broad brushed again, didn't I?
Man; I got to quit doing that.
"As The Hurled Churns".
TCSS.
Art
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As the car is crushed
I like that.
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Comment by Paul Montpetit on August 4, 2009 at 9:50pm
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Typical.....BS politicians sticking their fat asses (oops sorry Chief) into something that they know nothing about and not asking someone that might know....Make a great soap though....Call it "As your house burns" Or maybe "As the car is crushed...so to is the driver" Or "911, what is the Emergency...? Sorry, we don't have a Fire Department anymore."....Stay safe all.....Paul
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