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September 15, 2008
1:26 p.m.
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Written on Electric, water fees may be reconsidered at Marco City Council meeting:

What happens with all the foreclosures and short sales on the Island where people just stop paying taxes and with your tax increases more people will see this as a way out of their financial situation, the rest of the taxpayers will have to pick up those fees. So there will be another tax increase on the horizon.
If Marco Island keeps spending as was done in the good old days with property values doubling and gigantic tax increases, you will see more and more residents going to the Carolinas and other areas with low taxes. There should have been plenty of reserves in Marco Island's budget. Is it purchases like the $ 10 Mill (none) park, which is being used for everything except a park.
Go back to the budget of 2004, that should be possible and we believe the city would have a good reserve in the near future. 2004 was not so different from 2008. Stop wasting money on surveys about bridge tolls, LCEC and whatever will be coming up in the future. You saw the answer to those questions by the MICA survey. What more do you need? MICA did this survey without any charge to the residents of Marco or additional funds to be paid by the council. May be asked them to find out what the Island thinks and you will get the answer without paying $100,000+.
MORE IMPORTANTLY LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF THAT SURVEY.
Please vote responsible, those were the promises made to the residents of this Island. Especially the new councilors which promised change, so far I have not seen any change in your votes, think about your promises made to the taxpayers of the community, those are the people which elected you and believed you. Please don't proof them wrong!

September 15, 2008
1:25 p.m.
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Written on Electric, water fees may be reconsidered at Marco City Council meeting:

We believe that our water bills are out of hand already without future increases. When the water plant was purchased the promise was reduced bills. Checked our old bills before Marco and they were almost half of today's bills. What is wrong with the council? After the fiasco with the water utility we need to buy LCEC so that we can double electric bills too?
Then lets increase the Taxes, Marco Island residents have it. WRONG!
Even the residents which have it did not earn the money for taxes, they earned it to be enjoyed by themselves and their families. There are many residents which don't have enough money to keep paying more taxes year after year. That is why we see all those for sale signs all over the island. Those people did not stop loving Marco, they simply cannot afford it any longer or are disillusioned with our City government.
Let's put on your thinking caps and reduce taxes , vote against the new mill rate and start reducing the budget. Every family has to do it, every taxing district has to do it, so what makes Marco Island so different.
Since council members have to pay the additional taxes also we hope that reason will prevail and that the budget will get reduced for today's economic conditions.
This is PARADISE gone wrong! We do not want to go the route of Deltona, which without their fault had to declare bankruptcy. Or may be Marco Island wants to join WCI, one of Floridas most successful companies gone into Chapter 11, is this the Route we want Marco to go?