I do not know of one San Pedrano police officer or member of the BDF. San Pedranos in general are accustomed to a lifestyle that could not be maintained if one were to join the government services. Therefore our police officers are all transplants from the mainland. Most of their families continue to live on the mainland due to the high cost of living on the island, as well as the fact that the officers are rotated from area to area around the country on a regular basis. They don't have enough time to establish a "home life" in San Pedro before it is time to move on.

As Simon has mentioned above, property tax rolls are public. You can go to the town board offices and they can release the requested info to you. Obviously they're not going to print out all 4,000 or so bills for you to peruse, but you can ask for specific bills.

There is legislation in place that enables the town board to auction off your property in order to satisfy arrears. It rarely happens, but it is done from time to time.

Years ago the town council had a fellow that collected taxes full time for a fee of 10% of collections. That sounds a little high until you realize the amount of work, time and energy involved. It was also his job to draft and publish legal notices and eventually seek judgments and perform auctions.

Most town boards don't enforce these issues to the extreme because it can make them unpopular - and they are after all, politicians.

A revamp of the system is in the works, I don't know what methods they will be utilizing. There is a valuation board and an appeals process available if some owners have compelling reasons why an assessment might be overly burdensome.

For those that have a moment, please send me your responses to the questions that I posed on the other thread.

Thanks for your time.