The Salem Fire Department is about to launch a sales campaign for
The Salem Fire Department is about to launch a sales campaign for their proposed 15 year bond measure needed to expand their services.
My hope is that it fails as that might help reduce the almost constant siren parades with each emergency vehicle sporting two Sirens, or as they report "only one dual-tone siren that just sounds as two sirens."
Visitors to Salem are often terrified as here the sound of 4 emergency vehicles (screaming Code-3) is equal in Alarm Noise to what most would know as the sound created by 8 emergency vehicles. This 100% increase in Alarm noise as simply overwhelming to many, leaving them
to wonder what horrific emergency must be in the offing.
This is not to mention the confusion caused to drivers who are trying to clear a path for what they hear as two emergency vehicles when actually only one is underway. This unnecessary trauma is an excellent way to chill what may have been a pleasant shopping trip and give more reason for shoppers to seek safe haven at the Woodburn company stores.
Also, anybody involved in either renting or selling real property in Salem can likely attest of having prospects choose to seek housing away from Salem and that due to our city often sounding more like a war zone. As if the news reports of Salem crime are not bad enough.
I ask, what fool would choose to pay more in taxes if the end result reduced the value of the property on which the tax is based? Isn't that what's called a . . . lose-lose?
My hope is that it fails as that might help reduce the almost constant siren parades with each emergency vehicle sporting two Sirens, or as they report "only one dual-tone siren that just sounds as two sirens."
Visitors to Salem are often terrified as here the sound of 4 emergency vehicles (screaming Code-3) is equal in Alarm Noise to what most would know as the sound created by 8 emergency vehicles. This 100% increase in Alarm noise as simply overwhelming to many, leaving them
to wonder what horrific emergency must be in the offing.
This is not to mention the confusion caused to drivers who are trying to clear a path for what they hear as two emergency vehicles when actually only one is underway. This unnecessary trauma is an excellent way to chill what may have been a pleasant shopping trip and give more reason for shoppers to seek safe haven at the Woodburn company stores.
Also, anybody involved in either renting or selling real property in Salem can likely attest of having prospects choose to seek housing away from Salem and that due to our city often sounding more like a war zone. As if the news reports of Salem crime are not bad enough.
I ask, what fool would choose to pay more in taxes if the end result reduced the value of the property on which the tax is based? Isn't that what's called a . . . lose-lose?
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