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      <![CDATA[David Martin, nice work on this and other articles. Its good to see someone out there doing important work.
        
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      <![CDATA[David Martin, nice work on this and other articles. Its good to see someone out there doing important work.
        
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      <![CDATA[Olathe FD has 7 fire stations covering 54.5 square miles. That's a station for every 7.79 square miles.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Martin, your continued lack of obtaining facts in your attack of the KCKFD is appalling.<br><br>Overland Park has 5 fire stations with a total fire department budget in 2009 of $18.75 million. That comes to $3.75 million per fire station.<br><br>KCKFD has 18 stations with a total fire department budget of $42.82 million in 2009.
        
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      <![CDATA[Olathe FD has 7 fire stations covering 54.5 square miles. That's a station for every 7.79 square miles.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Martin, your continued lack of obtaining facts in your attack of the KCKFD is appalling. Overland Park has 5 fire stations with a total fire department budget in 2009 of $18.75 million.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Martin First off thanks for admitting that you are a "twerp" for writing this. Articles like this are only meant to stir the pot and start contraversy.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Martin First off thanks for admitting that you are a "twerp" for writing this. Articles like this are only meant to stir the pot and start contraversy.
        
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      <![CDATA[This article is ridiculous. There are a lot of real problems with Wyandotte County administrators and BPU but the Fire Department is the least of our worries.
        
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      <![CDATA[This article is ridiculous. There are a lot of real problems with Wyandotte County administrators and BPU but the Fire Department is the least of our worries.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim, Jim, Jim. Have you compared the salaries of KCK to the Departments in JoCo?
        
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      <![CDATA[Dr. Mr. Martin, <br>Who runs more calls? Do you live in Wyandotte County?
        
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      <![CDATA[mr. martin. your article, in addition to having many incorrect figures, fails to account for the call volume per population of the cities of which you are comparing.
        
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      <![CDATA[KCK furloughs city/county workers. How can we afford the 'best' firefighter contract in the entire state?<br><br><a href="http://www.wycokck.org/assets/42A6D905-7452-46B0-B41A-6BB37F0ACBF1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.wycokck.org/assets/...</a>  page 16<br><br>ITEM NO. 2 &ndash; 080185&hellip;RESOLUTION<br>Synopsis: Requesting the ratification of the Memorandum of Agreement with the<br>International Association of Firefighters Local 64 for the period 2007-2009, submitted by Hal<br>Walker, Chief Counsel.<br>Action: RESOLUTION NO.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim, Jim, Jim. Have you compared the salaries of KCK to the Departments in JoCo?
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim, this is a "sales tax", not a property tax.<br><br>With the millions of non-Wyandotte visitors to the Village West shopping area, the Speedway, the new Wizards stadium spending money and helping to support our public safety.<br><br>I fully support this sales tax initiative and look forward to it's passage and the continued high quality of service we receive from both the KCKFD and KCKPD.<br><br>And the average wage per job in Wyandotte County is over $35,000 sir.
        
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      <![CDATA[Dr. Mr. Martin, 
    Who runs more calls? Do you live in Wyandotte County?
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim is right. When he gets into a motor vehicle accident on the newly paved streets, who will be there to help him.
        
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      <![CDATA[mr. martin. your article, in addition to having many incorrect figures, fails to account for the call volume per population of the cities of which you are comparing.
        
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      <![CDATA[KCK furloughs city/county workers. How can we afford the 'best' firefighter contract in the entire state?
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim, this is a "sales tax", not a property tax. With the millions of non-Wyandotte visitors to the Village West shopping area, the Speedway, the new Wizards stadium spending money and helping to support our public safety.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Martin- What these bloated fire personnel responding to your article in less than four minutes refuse to mention is that the cherry-picked 'citizen' panel that the UG put together to ram through the sales tax initiative voted the fire department dead last in their survey and three of the panel members said we should REDUCE funding to the fire department. When the UG concocted the hair-brained sales tax initiative they openly muttered 'how can we sell this?'
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim is right. When he gets into a motor vehicle accident on the newly paved streets, who will be there to help him.
        
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      <![CDATA[Mr. Martin- What these bloated fire personnel responding to your article in less than four minutes refuse to mention is that the cherry-picked 'citizen' panel that the UG put together to ram through the sales tax initiative voted the fire department dead last in their survey and three of the panel members said we should REDUCE funding to the fire department. When the UG concocted the hair-brained sales tax initiative they openly muttered 'how can we sell this?'
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:33:02 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[If it was you or your family member who was critically injured, or severly sick wouldnt you want the fastest response time in the state......I can tell you this when I look into the eyes of a parent with a sick child the last thing on their mind is "How much is this costing us tax payers?"
        
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