Merrell Wood and Connecting to the City
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Topic: Merrell Wood and Connecting to the City
Posted By: Pacman
Subject: Merrell Wood and Connecting to the City
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 11:21am
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In reading Mr. Wood's editiorial in the paper several things came to mind.
Mr. Wood states, "I recently had a conversation with a retired resident of
The question that entered my mind, was that if this gentleman he talked to was retired and living on a fixed income he is paying no Income tax to the City of Middletown. Now if he owns a home he is paying Property Tax and only about 10-15% of that goes to the City. The bulk of the Property tax goes to the Middletown City School District. So why are we not told we should be connecting with the MCSD? Mr. Wood seems to want to focus on the Senior Citizens of Middletown Volunteering at the City Building which is fine, but the taxes paid by most Seniors don't go to the City if they don't work.
Now Mr. Wood and Mr. Schiavone want to set up a program based on Ketterings volunteer program, called "ACTIVE – Area Citizens Together In Volunteer Endeavors." Mr. Wood states that he wants Volunteers to "assist their city's administrative staff in a variety of activities to supplement and complement city services at minimal expense." In otherwords filing, stuffing envelopes, answering the phone, etc.
Lets take a look at Kettering and Middletown for a moment:
Kettering Population approx. 58,000 Middletown 51,000
Kettering Average Income $49,000 Middletown $37,000
Kettering Income Tax 2.25% Middletowns 1.75%
Kettering Poverty Level 8.5% Middletowns 22%
Kettering Section 8 Housing 71 Middletown 1662
Kettering City Employees 400 Middletown 400
Kettering size about 18 Miles Middletown 26 Miles
Kettering Fire/Medical Calls about 8100+ Middletwon is similar
Kettering Fire Stations 7 Middletown 5
Kettering Paid FireFighters 45 Middletown Paid FireFighters 85
Say what, Kettering and Middletown have about the same number of Fire/Medical calls yet Kettering has 40 fewer paid FireFighters and 2 more Fire Stations how is this possible?
It is possible due to the part of the Volunteer Program that Mr. Wood and Mr. Schiavone left out:
Hmmmmmmmm this would seem to be a more worthy endeavor to investigate as far as Volunteering in Middletown than just shuffling papers for the City Admin.
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Posted By: Middletown News
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 11:55am
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Echo: Kettering and Middletown have about the same number of Fire/Medical calls yet Kettering has 40 fewer paid FireFighters and 2 more Fire Stations how is this possible? ------------- Please like our http://www.facebook.com/middletownusa" rel="nofollow - Middletown USA Facebook Page |
Posted By: kingair
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 12:05pm
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I believe Kettering still uses Volunteer Firefighters. ------------- Kigair200 |
Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 12:12pm
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I think I said that. |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 2:48pm
| Hmm...one might wonder why our ex-Out-of-city Manager Husemann didn't bring this up as a point for discussion during his tenure here. |
Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 3:15pm
| Hmmmmmm.....one has to wonder why no one in the current council will mention this, as you know even it you hand delivered it to each council member it would be filed in the Circular file. I am sure Schiavone and Wood saw it, as it is right there under Volunteers on Ketterings main web page. |
Posted By: 2000+
Date Posted: Jan 27 2009 at 5:39pm
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From what I see..... It may we worth it if it comes from the Senior Center.
I just don't expect the manager to allow it unless their are no issues about liability
and unions. Wood has always found a way to get around the powers that be....
Didn't he get council to come back downstairs in front of the cameras?
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