Please take the time to watch this news story about the Conifer Fire Protection District (CFPD). It perfectly illustrates the advantages of Unification, displaying how CFPD can deploy more resources more quickly in response to emergency calls.
Unfortunately, the residents of Elk Creek FPD are being denied these benefits due to needless legal filings from Chuck Newby and Neil H Whitehead III. These filings put us all at increased risk and waste taxpayer dollars on legal fees, not vital Fire, EMS, and Wildland Services. The life safety of every resident in this service area is literally in the balance, yet life safety is not mentioned once in the appeal or the injunction.
I believe Elk Creek FPD must evolve through Unification with Conifer Fire to meet today's challenges and proactively prepare for the future.
Please let me know if you have questions about Unification or would like to learn how to provide input to the JeffCo Board of County Commissioners on the appeal.
That's what happens when you ignore the consent of the governed and proceed along a path the voters told you not to take. If the board had done the right thing and put their revised plan before the same voters who had turned down the earlier plan, there would be no lawsuit to be filed because the board would have either received permission to proceed or been told, yet again, that the people they served wanted an independent district.
Thanks to the board of the ECFPD, and their desire to thwart the will of the voters, their actions are now being challenged and must be defended in a court of law. It is the board who made this expenditure necessary.
