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Wassaic Taxpayers Shocked at New Ambulance Tax

Fire District being investigated by State Comptrollers Office

by Tonia Shoumatoff

Sat Jan 16th, 2016

At the Fire Commissioners meeting at the Wassaic Fire House on January 14, confused residents came out to find out why their taxes are jumping astronomically and what they will be getting for it. The increase of the Fire Department Tax is 171.7% due to a new contract for free 24-hour ambulance services with on-call paramedics. It only covers the Wassaic Fire District, roughly the lower half of Amenia.

http://themillbrookindependent.com/content/wassaic-taxpayers-shocked-new-ambulance-tax

How can anyone who would want to volunteer afford to live in Rye?

There are some potential problems with this, although it is dubious that Duracell and Energizer have their name on this document

https://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/PSdata/tmy/2015SB-01012-R000303-Energizer%20Duracell-TMY.PDF