By Michael Zimmer, Other Voices
Sunday, December 16, 2007
I greatly appreciated the Times editorial of December 9 urging the commissioners to refrain from raising taxes to make up for reductions in funding expectations from the state.
In the face of higher sales taxes, higher electric bills and higher fuel costs the last thing the people of Carroll County need is a rate hike in their real property taxes.
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A second topic that deserves comment is the unanimous vote earlier this year by the commissioners to shift our primary law enforcement from a blended system of the Sheriff's Department and State Police Resident Troopers toward a county police force.
If anyone wants to understand the rational for each commissioner's vote, the best thing to do is to review the video archive of our meeting of October 4 on the county government Web site under the video library and agendas header.
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This doesn't mean that I think Sheriff Ken Tregoning has done a bad job. Actually, it is just the opposite. Because he has done such a good job at filling the gap between a capped resident trooper program and our growing needs, he has put the commissioners in a position that allows us to make this decision from a position of strength, not weakness.
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Read the entire piece here: Carroll County Times Other Voices: “Frugality, county police needed” by Carroll County Commissioner Mike Zimmer
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