This is crazy. If I can hardly afford the mandatory insurance, how am I supposed to pay the fire department if someone else causes an accident-at no fault of my own? Look to other ways to get revenue instead of pinching the people you are PAID to help, JFD. Why do we pay LOCAL TAXES if you're going to charge us extra for services rendered; services we ALREADY PAY FOR??

There are a lot of time's the fire dept is not even need'ed. There buy wasting money

I thought that is what my taxes were taking care of??? So if I go the entire year and not use the fire,ambulance,police would I get a rebate on my tax bill??? I think it only fair if they charge a per use fee. How in the world with the current economics of the area our city officials continue to take more of our $$. We have a duplex that is vacant on one side. We recieved our water bill for that unit. With the meter showing zero water useage our bill was still about $49.00 in just fees and surcharges.

See crime is down article!

dkush- I agree they are looking for the 2 Mil!

To build an ice hockey rink! That's more important! NOT!

One way to stop people shopping in Janesville.
Starting to sound like Illinos tolls.

Sounds like more motivation to leave the scene of an accident to me.

Just what do we pay taxes for?

This a a way to charge fees rather than call them what they are - taxes. If the city is having a budget problem paying for fire protection, it is time to think out of the box. Fire protection should be outsourced. The city needs to remove itself from the union contract and the long term legacy expenses involved. The situation is no different than what has been faced by private business except that a business can't invent reasons to charge customers more. The day is coming when government institutions and workers can no longer operate risk free. They can not be exempt from economic reality and common sense.