Just Looking for a Fair Share
. Taking more than 300,000 emergency calls annually requires a substantial investment … about $11 million a year in Hamilton County. While we’re all about helping our neighbors, the bean counters of the county have called out Atlanta, Cicero, Sheridan and Arcadia for not pulling their weight in terms of paying for Hamilton County’s 911 operations. Historically, “the big four,” -- Carmel, Fishers, Westfield and Noblesville -– covered the bill, but that fire truck has left the station. When the sum was divvied up to reflect population and need, there was about $500,000 left for the smaller towns to pay, which they contend is outside their budgets. Hence the probable passage of a 0.1 percentage point tax increase in the local county income tax. Like the Cubbies say, “Everybody in!”