I remember several years ago a straw vote was taken concerning going metro and the majority was for it. Let’s try it again, except this time let’s make it a binding vote. Why do we need so many small towns in this area with all their own little governments, ordinances, laws, taxes, etc.
Each is robbing the taxpayers of their hard-earned money. We have six different police departments, different fire departments, etc.
Most people don’t even know what town they live in. When you ask them where they live they say, “Panama City.” Almost every zip code’s mailing address comes up as Panama City.
This area is growing so fast, we can no longer justify all these small town governments and the expenses they create on the taxpayers. We need to go metro and have one police department, one fire department, one public utility department. I don’t know, maybe prices would go down for some. Maybe property taxes would stabilize for everybody and be the same county wide.
It’s time for this area to move into the 21st century and go metro from bridge to bridge. Leave the beaches to their own entity.
Who’s with me on this?