Thank you Larry for the legwork speaking with Fire department City Officials in other counties and thoughtful cost /benefit analysis for RFA .Clearly a unnecessary new layer of administrative bureaucracy and increases in taxes unfairly figured which will cost low income Homeowners and small Mom and Pop apartment owners proportionately more than larger corporate owners of commercial and market rate housing speculators It truly is a reverse Robin Hood taxation scheme and manufactured emergency in Fire department funding that does not exist.The current levy lid could be lifted to be adjusted for inflation to cover Fire Department fiscal needs . If the city of Olympia would stop giving 8 year property exemptions to wealthy Speculators under the Multifamily Tax Exemption (MFTE) and charge the appropriate Fire impact fees to the owners of these new buildings , Olympia could find much of the lost revenue for the fire dept budgetary shortfalls . At its core, the company pushing these RFD proposals in many communities appears to be a cookie cutter Corporate approach to sell a over priced RFD software management system which is copyright protected with secret algorithms and lacks transparency for public inspection. It is a scam and should be soundly rejected by the voters , Kim Dobson , Thurston County Democrats PCO Frye Cove 094
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