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The City Finance Director needs to be fired!

Agree. Proposing to voters a minimal decrease from the last proposition tax will be doomed to fail again ($0.36 per thousand instead of $0.45). Camas needs to be funding public safety properly now and not demand so much more from voters.

Shocked by this post East Clark Professional Fire Fighters. Folks like me who supported RFA from the get-go (actually, since 2022) & did a lot of community service work to help it pass earlier this year, are finding this union's attack of our neighbors in our City, with accusations & innuendos sounding like conspiracy theories quite disturbing. This is especially unseemly conduct coming from our taxpayer funded Fire Dpt's union of all things. Oddly, the tone and tactics employed sounds just like a political group that fanned the "no" before the last RFA vote, which lost by only 300 votes influenced by a ton of misleading talking points and innuendoes directed at the East Clark Professional Fire Fighters & City of Camas!! Here are facts that Camas neighbors like me are know that's counter to the post's assertions: - | (1) Our City's worked damn hard to upgrade our Fire Dpt & Safety including helping get a recent Fire levy passed. | (2) All these years, City of Camas had to do the administrative work for the ILA so naturally monies had to be dispersed across departments helping with that big task Washougal did not have. | (3) Our City's finance director & department just got awarded a AAA rating again. Based on many things, including basics of "balancing the checkbook". Plus, being PUBLIC financing City has to follow a ton of finance & disclosure laws. | (4) Our City's finances have gotten hit by both the pandemic and certain councilors repeatedly DOGE'ing our public finances, voting against the needs of our City budget & public services. That irresponsible conduct by some councilors has come home to roost, created a budget hole that's bound to affect all services. So, it's not the post's simplistic "corruption" broad brushstrokes. It is *some* politician-councilors playing politics above public needs (and this year we have a chance to vote out the worst of this type of politician/councilor). | All that to say - whoever wrote the post is lacking a thorough understanding. Finally, for details of all I just referred to AND so you know that typically I'm an ally: - | Go to Camas News Network. A Neighbors Group. and (a) dig into "featured" posts & for a deeper-dive click on the "guides" tab too and also (b) put in "RFA" in the search tool. That's just the tip of the work - just the original postings. A lot of work was done with cross-posting them across local CW groups & other platforms where Camas/Washougal folks are etc. and beyond social media work too. However, a bunch of RFA misinformation was also expertly spread in our community, money involved etc., - is what did it in last time. Yes, we do need a RFA - but, this post isn't a worthy tactic to employ by the union!

We did this at bill hammock park when I was younger it was so much fun

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