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KCFFR Successfully Fights Wasteful Tax Increase in Wyoming

Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility, a local non-partisan taxpayer advocacy organization, is celebrating another victory at the ballot box. Today Wyoming Public Schools again asked for a 0.5 mill property tax increase for a so-called sinking fund. This fund … Continue reading

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Get Out the Vote Effort Organized to Oppose Wyoming School Millage

Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR), a local non-partisan taxpayer’s advocacy group, began its get-out-the-vote effort opposing the second attempt to pass a Wyoming School millage tax increase. The millage request for 0.5 mils assessed for ten years in … Continue reading

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KCFFR Assists Grandville Citizen Group with Petition to Leave The Rapid

Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR), a local non-partisan taxpayer’s advocacy group, announced that it is providing some assistance at the request of a Grandville citizen group wishing to give voters in the city the option of leaving The … Continue reading

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KCFFR Questions Second Wyoming School Millage Request

The Kent County Families for Fiscal Responsibility (KCFFR), a local non-partisan taxpayer’s advocacy group, announced its disappointment in the Wyoming school district’s decision to ask for the same millage increase this August that failed in the recent May election. The … Continue reading

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Mayor Heartwell and Backroom Deals Circumvent Democracy in Rapid Millage

On April 22, 2009 the Rapid made a route change to its proposed Silver Line less than two weeks before the election with little fanfare or explanation. The Silver Line’s proposed route to the medical mile connecting with Michigan Avenue … Continue reading