Tracy Residents Now Have To Pay $300 For 911 Calls

[fortsmithman]

It isnt about being difficult, its about local goverment nickle and diming their residents to death.

This is why I pay property taxes, if your local goverment cant balance their budget why the hell should the residents have to keep bailing them out.

Maybe the voters in Tracy should do what the voters in my town did vote the current mayor and council out of office and elect new blood to run their municipality.

 

[fortsmithman]

Oh... something else to consider.
Looking at the Tracy FD website, this isn't for an ambulance. The fee is purely for the fire department to get off their butts and respond.

I thought getting paid their salary was to get them to do their job.

 

[MS Medic]

It isnt about being difficult, its about local goverment nickle and diming their residents to death.

This is why I pay property taxes, if your local goverment cant balance their budget why the hell should the residents have to keep bailing them out.

You also already pay a 911 sercharge on your phone bill. The local government would be triple dipping if you count property taxes, 911 sercharge and this $48 dollar tax

 

[EMSLaw]

You also already pay a 911 sercharge on your phone bill. The local government would be triple dipping if you count property taxes, 911 sercharge and this $48 dollar tax

And that's stopped them when?

I just see this as another reason not to move to California, which might own the distinction of being the only state more flat-a** broke than mine.