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PAGE6
TO THE
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
ABOUT HOSPITAL
MISU NE)Ei~STANI)IN(; S
ideal" Editor:
it woilld seem that someone
should try again to answer some
of the questions and charges com-
ing out of the Belfair area re-
garding the pl~)posed hospital dis-
triet, so here goes . . .
I'll take the three main issues
in the order in which they seem
to create the most confusion.
(1) "The hospital District is go.
ing to eapture some of the tax
revenue being enjoyed by the fire
districts" . . . "
This has all been said before,
but I'll say it again.
Everyone in the County Court-
house, including all three County
Commissioners, agree that under
the existing circumstances, and
any likely future circumstances,
it is impossible for a hospital dis-
trict to encroach upan (,he fire
districts, UNLESS some senior
taxing district (the City or
schools) within Shelton proper,
w(~z'e to vohmtarily relinquish some
of their tax revenue. I re, bruit that
this is not about to happen.
It would seem to me that Fire
District Commissioner Bill Somers
~a~cst tmderstand this• He has
"been around", so to speak, and
is certainly no dummy. This line
of reasoning is even more mysti-
fying when the anti-hospital group
has another leader, Roy Mitchell,
who is an ex-cmmty Commissioner.
He surely KNOWS better. If not,
one must conclude that as a Coun-
ty Commissioner he learned sup-
risingly little .about hmv the Coun-
ty tax structure functions.
I dont know whether Mr. Mit-
chell actively helped create this
Fire District "smoke screen", or
if he merely allowed others to do
so. At any rate, it appears to many
of us to be just that, a "smoke
screen".
Belfair fire chief Bill DeMiero
told me just last week that his
primary con'cern was the fire dis-
triet tax revenue. He didn't seem
to be too concerned about the taxes
he might have to pay, or the fact
that he goes to Kitsap County for
his medical care.
(2) "Most of us go to Bremerton
for our medical care".
This point has never been arg-
ned regarding most of the people
from Belfair proper and the North
Shore area. We can, however,
count a goodly number of people
from lhe Belfair precinct No. 1,
especially i,hose livin[4 down
around 'Pwanoh State t~al'k, who
do come to Shelton.
I can'L say about the people
from Allyn. I'm sure many of them
go to Bremerton, hut I know thai
Inany uf them also come to Shcl-
ton. I am ill a position to say,
however, that it would appear
from looking at the rec.ords, that
the m~ jority of the Grapeview peo-
ple come to Shelton for their medi-
cal care, including some of those
who are most vocal in their op-
position to a ho~)ital district.
(3) "Someone is trying to put
something over on us, the original
petition was not circulated in B el-
fair..., etc., etc."
It is true that the petiLion was
~mt circulated in the Belfair area.
11 i.~ also true that it was not
circula.ted in Kamilche, Cloqual-
him, Matloek, or points north of
Hoodsport. A good many of the
people in these areas, (most of
ute,,~ in Kamilehe and Cloqua!l-
urn), can state that they go to
s(nne other area out of the Coun-
ty for their medical care. We
]lave had no protest from these
areas about being included in the
proposed district.
When we learned that the for-
marion of a district had to be in
~0 General election, the g6neral
election was staring us in the face,
and we only had about two weeks
to get the proposition before the
County Commissioners. Time be-
ing of the essence, we made no,
concerted effort outside of ShelLon,
and we still got. almost 1800 sig-
natures within a week: we needed
686. I'm sure we could have got-
ten many signatures in Belfair.
(The fire chiefs lmdn't gotten in-
to the act yet/.
Even tllough the original peti-
tion did stipulate thaL the propos-
ed district be county-wide, some
of us were of the honest opinion
that the boundaries could still be
less than countywide if the coun-
ty Comnlissloners were to arrive
at the conclusion (majority vote)
that they should be..
This was the way I explained
it at a "town hall" meeting in
Belfair on the evening of Sept. 11.
Roy Mitchell was all for it that
night, but two days later he was
"agin" it.
Even if it hadn't been for the
legal l~ding, I think the straw
that would have broken the cam-
el's back was when Grapeview
wanted out. The County Commis-
sioners could forsee a storm of
protesl and a "sour grapes" ~no
pun intende(1) reaction if Grape-
view were exch,dcd. Why not a.lso
let the area out that I mentioned
before, Some of them are farther
away from Shelton than Grapeview
is, and closer to other hospitals
than Grapeview is to Bkemerton.
At any rate, the legal opinion
finally came down that since the
original petition stipulated "coun-
ty-wide" it had to be county wide,
This is the proposal that the re-
quired number of signers asked
the County Commissioners to put
on the ballot. So . . . the majority
(of the entire county) will rule.
Some people are calling "foul"
and stating that we are trying
to "steal" $5,000,000.00 of evalua-
tion from the north part of the
county. It is no secret that we
would like to include this assessed
tax base in the district, because
without it, mid some of the other
areas that could conceivably be
excluded, the tax base of the re-
maining area starts to get to a
point where it would be pretty
steep to handle a bond issue of
about $750,000.
There are many people in the
county who would just as soon
be excluded from any taxing sit-
uation that they don't feel woalct
be of any benefit to them. But
they still pay their taxes without
so much hue and cry.
Whether the Belfair people like
it or not they are still in Mason
County. No matter what county
they were in, there would still
be taxes to pay which they may
or may not benefit from. The
North Mason school district has
certainly received more than its
share of the "Forest Lands" rev-
enue and are currently asking for
another sizeable share of the next
appropriation.
You could never find a taxing
proposal that would not meet with
oposition from some quarter, geo-
graphical or otherwise, and it
would be pretty hard to make any
such proposal stick if you we:'e
to let everyone out who opposed it.
The average tax payer in the
county will undoubtedly pay con-
siderably less thnn $9 per year in
taxes IF the Hospital District is
formed and IF a bond issue is
passed at some later date.
I can't help but feel that it in
the tax bite that is behind the
Slnokc scz'ecn, and I (:all well im-
agine that the hire is going Lo
be pretty big in some cases. I
suppose it is too much to ask that
these individuals display the can-
(]OI', or courage, to come Ollt and
say--:'I am opposed to this tiling
because it will cost nm X number
of dollars pet. year in taxes•"
This just doemft seem to be the
way to get supporL in opposing
this kind of an issue.
R. Cal Hopper
Administrator,
Shelton General Hospital
LEFT OUT ~ Senator Henry
Jackson was mistakenly omitted
from the page 13 advertisement
sponsored by the Democratic
Central Committee through an
error by the Journal advertising
manager, who used a picture of
Senator Warren G. Magnuson
instead, l~enator Jackson is
running for re-election, not Sen-
ator Magnuson. We respectfully
refer you to Senator Jackson's
advertisement on page 5 for de-
tails of his J,ong and illustrious
career in public life, and apolo-
gize for the mental block which
caused the mix-up.
Let's
the incentive of the
lazy to remain on
our welfare rolls.
Lel's DEFEAT
the politicians
who want to keep
them there.
ELECT
RANDALL O.
Republican
REPRESENTATIVE
from Mason, Jefferson & Clallam Counties
(Paid by Thompson for Representative Committee,
Vince Lux, Chrm,)
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