Evergreen Fire Board Recall info....

deltamrey wrote: Frog...I expected you to disagree.....common line.....but facts are facts. I have been a vol firefighter AND a career military tech/officer in 'NAM and in Subs.....so I have walked the talk. There is NO comparison.....NONE.

Compensation should be reviewed......your experience sounds reasonable. These boards IMHO should be service ......period.

From here: http://www.evergreenfirerescue.com/efpd-board/

"The EFPD is managed by a Board of Directors consisting of five volunteer members, elected by the voters in the district. "

The board is volunteer and is not paid for their time.

Thank you for your service. I'm sure you've seen things that wouldn't happen in civilian life. I still don't agree with you in that the board doesn't require an understanding of firefighting. In order to effectively run a department, they must know in detail what the department does. I will agree that the main skills required to be on the board are administrative: financial, interpersonal, negotiation and mediation, and organization. That's the main method that I'm going to use to judge the recall - in my opinion, the current board has not failed on any of those. In addition, the current board has numerous years of experience doing what they're currently administrating... that seems like a good thing to me.

You brought up the fire down south in which people were killed. I don't believe that was in this district, so the mistakes made on the burn are irrelevant to this discussion.

homeagain wrote: LABELS AND BOXES.........life is too short to "worry" about what "others" think of you.......social media is a "popularity
venue" that reminds me of high school and the "in' crowd, IF you don't CONFORM to their expectations you are "out"....JMO

I just expressed on opinion, and predicted that you would not change your posting style based on the comments...

My prediction was right

Not that it matters, I just like saying "I was right" It doesn't happen near often enough so I take 'em where I can get 'em.

I heard this debate has been cancelled.
Anyone know anything about that?

I grabbed this link for Evergreenbound, it is very sad that our local channels do not feel they need to cover this story but CNN will.


http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-945455

I agree that the local media should be covering this, but to be fair, that isn't a CNN story but rather an ireport that anyone can put on CNNs website.

We have been following this as best we can from AZ, a NIMBY group run amok. We should be providing our firefighters with every easily accessible tool that we can.

Archer,

I did not know that thank you for pointing it out.

I guess I really do not care how the information gets out and I for one want them to show both sides as it will show everyone what a waste of money this recall is because a few people threw a tantrum.

Here is an article that should be read:

The Evergreen Curmudgeons Oppose the Fire District Recall , For Many Reasons

http://yourhub.denverpost.com/golden/evergreen-fire-protection-district-recall-election-vitally-important/y2EvOdxuQ5EdtqwdpSV8qJ-ugc

Per http://www.evfd.com/ , only 17% of those who voted actually voted for the recall, while 83% voted against.

Unfortunately, it appears that only about 20% of those qualified to vote actually bothered to do so.

IMO, this is sad.