Are you ready to begin paying an additional $42-70 per year to register your vehicle in Ada County while all those large pickups, delivery vans (think UPS, FedEx, etc.), school buses and  semi’s you see during your driving in the county will be subject to zero increase in fees? I stress this increase will be on top of the fee you are currently paying and only applicable to Ada county residents.  ACHD is proposing this fee increase and it will be showing up on this November’s ballot.

I am all for paying my fair share to maintain local roads.  I do get upset when the many heavy vehicles that cause far more wear and tear to the roads then my passenger vehicle will not be paying their fair share.

Read the proposal. The ballot language does a decent job of trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the uninformed reader. If you disagree as I do spread the news and then vote in November.

A bright side to this is that the common practice of Boise residents  registering their vehicles in low cost counties where they may have a cabin/vacation home is being scrutinized.  Many of these people have not been indicating that Boise, i.e. Ada county is their primary residence and thus keeping the Boise/Ada property tax exemption.  These folks may be tagged and subject to losing the property tax exemption. We can only hope.