Another Tax Letter

"Hearing" Didn't Happen at County Commission Meeting

Editor:

If you're interested in seeing your elected officials in action – and have considered attending a public hearing – you're bound to be disappointed. "Hearing" apparently is one of the faculties our county commissioners don't do publicly.

With the exception of Nancy Bell, our Levy County Commissioners seem to have a collective malady – they choose to neither see, hear nor speak in response to the burgeoning concerns of their tax-paying constitutents.

When citizens voiced their dismay and amazement at the proposed tax increases, citing the inability of a large majority of the county's currently employed and private business owners to incur such outrageous costs, which would result in their closing their businesses, the four county commissioners appeared unaffected.

When the pleas of our county's elderly and fixed-income residents were made poignantly clear, that many veteran homeowners, retirees and widows would be forced to seek welfare to subsist, the four county commissioners remained stoic and bored!

The same malaise must affect the county tax assessor, who didn't even bother to show; since he seems to hold no special duty dear enough to suggest any compromise possible to state taxing authorities but goes merrily along with the oppressive mandates of higher-ups.

The only empathetic, genuine representative seems to be Nancy Bell, and she finds herself facing her stricken constituents honestly but alone.

Give them hell, Nancy! You're what we expected the others to be, forthright and fighting for us!

Sincerely,
Erika Svor, RN