Camden County impact fees , by a three to two vote, will remain inviolate!
After the public hearing, Commissioner Berry made a motion to scrap the whole idea of suspending fees and leave things exactly as they are. In a reversal, Nisi Zell - who is up for re-election this year - quickly seconded the motion. By way of discussion, David Rainer pointed out that he was the one who made the original motion to adopt impact fees. Chip Keene, in an apparent bone to disgruntled Woodbiners (the jail), said that $2105.25 ( the impact fee on a home) was a lot of money to some folks (I had earlier detailed just how little it really is in the grand scheme of purchasing a newly constructed $175,000 house). Charlene Sears, the originator of this turkey, remained silent. In the end, Berry, Zell, and SEARS voted to leave the impact fees as is: Rainer and Keene were the nay votes.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
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Well it was not the best idea that Sears or Nisi had ever been a part of, however, i guess they deserve some amount credit for listening to their respective districts.
Rainer and Keene need to be tarred and feather in the middle of Bedell Avenue.
Keene will definitely be a one hit wonder. David Rainer seems to be a solid fixture, no matter how few votes he actually receives. Wink, Wink......
Tinkering with fees and taxes is really an annoyance. Nobody ever seems to consider how much it costs in uncompensated time and money to recalculate expenses and adjust one's accounts. Not to mention all the notification and retraining it involves.
Perhaps the worst example is that so-called "donut hole" coverage for prescription drugs which starts and stops and starts again. The only rationale for that deprivation I can come up with is a desire to provide pharmacies with an excuse for holding on to prescriptions and resisting their transfer to a competitor. When pharmacies started showing up in super markets, you had to know a new profit center was in the offing.
Some things are better kept as they are.
Oohkay.
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