Responsibility’ to Adopt $60 Fee for Fire
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Finals: Heat look to rebound from Game 1 loss /B1 MONDAY TODAY CITRUS COUNTY & next morning HIGH 90 Scattered LOW afternoon and evening storms. 72 PAGE A4 www.chronicleonline.com JUNE 10, 2013 Florida’s Best Community Newspaper Serving Florida’s Best Community 50¢ VOL. 118 ISSUE 307 QUESTION Monday CONVERSATION OF THE WEEK BOCC ‘More responsibility’ to adopt $60 fee for fire Contribute! Like us at service facebook.com/ citruscounty CHRIS VAN ORMER chronicle and Staff writer respond to our INVERNESS — The Question of the new $60 per residential Week. unit fee to fund the fire service will be taken Hurricane sea- through the next step at son has begun Tuesday’s meeting of the — how do you Citrus County Board of County Commissioners prepare for it (BOCC). each year? The board will hear the resolution establishing Have we been the fire service municipal lulled into a service benefit unit false sense of (MSBU) from County At- torney Richard Wesch, security that ... who will ask the board to we’re “safe”? MATTHEW BECK/Chronicle adopt and authorize the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge Manager Michael Lusk, pictured outside of the refuge headquarters resolution to provide the Jessica Roman on King’s Bay in Crystal River, oversees a large series of refuges along the Gulf Coast. services, facilities and With HAARP, none of us are safe. programs in the unincor- (Editor’s note: HAARP is the porated areas of the High Frequency Active Michael Lusk says he is up to the management challenge county and the city of In- Auroral Research Program verness. The resolution, with the goal of learning A.B. SIDIBE sponsible for five refuges be- especially during the winter which is available on the about the physical and elec- trical properties of the Staff writer tween here and Egmont Key, at tourist season — and some resi- county’s website, will es- Earth’s ionosphere that can the mouth of Tampa Bay. dents are agitating for access to tablish the cost and parcel affect military and civilian hen Michael Lusk Only two of those employees the property. apportionments and rate communication and became manager of are law enforcement officers. Lusk has slated a public meet- assessments for the fiscal navigation systems.) the Crystal River “In a place like Egmont Key, it ing July 11 to discuss the over- year beginning Oct. 1. Mary Jo O. Tevlin WNational Wildlife is not unusual during the sum- crowding issues in the canals Staff will be directed to I take the Refuge four years ago, little did mer to have up to 600 boats on a next to Three Sisters Springs and prepare an assessment HURRICANE GUIDE he know a pair of issues would inside the property. He said his roll and set a public hear- insert from the paper and weekend. And don’t forget, we follow what is needed and pervade his initial tenure — have 32,000 acres of marshland agency has purview over what ing at 2:30 p.m. July 23. fill a Rubbermaid tub with Three Sisters Springs and new to deal with in Chassahowitzka. happens inside the boundaries Regardless of property items and mark the top federal rules of conduct in So, when people say, ‘why don’t of the property, and the city of size, the proposed fee of HURRICANE SUPPLIES. Never King’s Bay, which in turn was we bring more resources to Crystal River’s Waterfronts Advi- $60 would apply to all. Ac- take for granted that we will designated a manatee protec- sory Board has taken over the be passed over. We have King’s Bay,’ they don’t know we cording to the ordinance: shutters for the back and tion refuge in 2012 as part of a have all these other places we task of coming up with a solution “Neither the size nor the plywood and brackets for rules overhaul. have to cope with,” Lusk said. to the clogged navigable canals value of the residential the front and side windows While the rules issue has He said funding has been cur- fronting Three Sisters Springs. property determines the should they be needed. been settled, Three Sisters “However, I don’t know if we scope of the required fire Stocking up on water and tailed because of the federal se- non-perishable foods and Springs continues to tug at Lusk quester, and a place like the will be able to come up with a protection response. The making a plan on where to and the other stakeholders re- waterway in front of Three Sis- concrete plan before the begin- potential demand for fire go in case of evacuation is sponsible for its development. ters Springs has become a ning of 2013 winter season. It’s protection services is essential. Stay safe and Lusk said his office has 10 like the Wild West, we are going driven by the existence of follow the advice of the safety nightmare of overcrowd- authorities! employees and the office is re- ing and potential disaster — See MONDAY/ Page A5 a dwelling unit and the anticipated average occu- Diane Fuller pant population.” Everything is ready Non-residential prop- except for sending out the invites for the party! erty is to be assessed by Just kidding. Be safe and actual square footage “be- ready. cause the demand for fire Friends honor protection service, fire POLL flow, fire fighters, quantity and size of apparatus and ONLINE POLL: other special fire fighting local chaplain equipment is determined Your choice? and measured by the Where do you stand on square footage of struc- the War on tures and improvements Terror? and minister within benefited parcels.” A. We should Non-residential prop- be deploying NANCY KENNEDY erty would be assessed at more forces WOODY DAY to Afghanistan Staff writer $0.06 per square foot for and elsewhere in the Tuesday, June 11, is commercial space, $0.01 region to combat INVERNESS — In his “Rev. Alan Woody Day.” per square foot for indus- terrorism. heyday, whenever a tragedy He will be honored at trial or warehouse space B. Bring all the troops struck, the Rev. Alan Woody the Board of County and $0.09 per square foot home. would go — Columbine; Commissioners for institutional space. C. With allied forces, we Jonesboro, Ark.; Pearl, Miss. meeting beginning at Agricultural or vacant need to keep a troop If a hurricane or tornado 1 p.m. at the county land would be assessed at presence overseas but hit, he’d pack his truck with courthouse in $3.10 per parcel of land put an increased supplies and go. Inverness. that is less than or equal emphasis on domestic As a Citrus County Sher- to 160 acres and $0.02 per terrorism. iff ’s Office chaplain and teens that God loved them. acre beyond 160 acres. To vote, visit www. honorary deputy, he has of- His heart has always been Also on the agenda: chronicleonline.com. for young people, especially ■ At 2 p.m., the board Click on the word fered comfort and solace to crime victims and law en- the ones most people didn’t will conduct a public “Opinion” in the menu want to deal with. Together hearing regarding the or- forcement alike. NANCY KENNEDY/Chronicle to see the poll. with his wife JoAnn, he has dinance for the collection Results will appear He loved going to rock The Rev. Alan Woody, a longtime Christian loved and opened his home of service assessments. next Monday. Find last concerts, standing in the minister and chaplain with the Citrus County ■ At 2:30 p.m., the board week’s online poll parking lot, never judging, to outcasts, having taken in Sheriff’s Office, was recently honored for his results./Page A3 but always wanting to tell See MINISTER/ Page A11 lifetime of service. Woody, 77, has Alzheimer’s. See BOCC/ Page A5 Classifieds . .B6 Crossword . .B4 INDEX Lottery Numbers . .B3 Obituaries . .A6 Comics . .B5 Editorial . .A10 Lottery Payouts . .B3 TV Listings . .B4 Entertainment . .A4 Horoscope . .A4 Movies . .B5 000F4JV A2 MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013 CITRUS COUNTY (FL) CHRONICLE Annual Hearing Test: SMART Free Annual Hearing Test: GENIUS If you want to pay more for better hearing... THAT’S YOUR BUSINESS! 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