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Reader says The FAC has an ugly history of suggesting new fees with no benefit to residents as we see with the 25% increase for commuter parking

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The FAC has an ugly history of suggesting new fees with no benefit to residents as we see with the 25% increase for commuter parking. It takes taxes to run a village and if those taxes can’t cover the bill, then we have a spending problem. If additional services are added, fees can support them. No where was the FAC suggesting new services, just that our fees were too low. If regulation requires oversight like in the restaurants, then cost recovery is the perfect model. When those fees are silly like landscaping [whch Summitt doesn’t charge for] then kill the fee. An overall cost recovery model on all fees only invites the expansion of fees as a revenue generator. Put a tax on what you wish to limit, suppress or regulate and eliminate the rest. Also, we have a CFO, why is there even still a FAC?

5 thoughts on “Reader says The FAC has an ugly history of suggesting new fees with no benefit to residents as we see with the 25% increase for commuter parking

  1. Look closely at the Photo of the existing main Parking lane towards the
    Train house..today the exit lane aside this is tight but balanced towards
    entry speed and urgency of making a train.Shoehorning more compact or other Parking stalls is just an unsafe land grab..half the time the restaurants don’t fill this lot at night because people are too lazy to walk
    A few blocks and go up and down Two underground tunnel stairs.

    Funny how our management sees no value to repaving our existing poorly surface lots blown out by winters of neglect and lack of maintenance.
    What we spent on referendums and other nonsense could have paved at lease two of these existing surface lots.Stop Garazilla 2.will ruin that Cafe
    District that have no utilization issues restaurants take out or wine businesses.what is the churches position on this nightmare.?

  2. Stop Garagezilla 2 It’simple and True

  3. Strikes me that that train station and square and underpass are constantly being reworked on taxpayers cost. vc proposes more compact car parking slot reworks

    No way there is a limit to this redo
    and surely it must be better than previous money spent twice in fact on that median and joke of a bike lane.let it rest. Pave a street or parking lot instead .thats a guaranteed investment . Its flat. And VC cant screw that up

  4. Nest the FAC will suggestion pay toilets at Village Hall, Library and Vets Field

  5. FAC should never have existed and must be disbanded ASAP.

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