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Service cut backs and our survival
Today the City of Atlanta GA is having the biggest “brown out” of fire services in its history. The city has closed fire stations and companies for the day, or longer, because they had to send firefighters home due to lack of funds to pay them.
How is your department surviving in today economy? What are you doing to adjust the way you operate under the new operating conditions brought on by loss of funding?
The current financial crisis is affecting all levels of government service delivery. The impact of the current severe economic downturn is likely to continue to negatively affect all local government services around the country. There may have never been a more important time than now for all of the stakeholders in government; Elected Officials, Managers, Leaders of Labor, & Concerned Citizens to work together to assure that the needs of all members of the community are addressed in the development of local public policy and service delivery.
As part of that effort, I have developed an online forum for all stakeholders to share what they have each done to improve: Service Delivery, Operational Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness & Safety for their communities and personnel. The web address is:
http://www.survivetaxcuts.com
I invite each of you to join the survivetaxcuts forum and to share your experiences, success stories and ideas to help others in government deal with current fiscal impacts on their ability to deliver service to the public. I also invite you to let others who are in local government service at any level and to those private citizens and taxpayers who are the real owners of government about this website.
Everyone needs to work together to solve todays problems. Please forward this to your friends and local government leaders.
Thank you
Ron Graner
How is your department surviving in today economy? What are you doing to adjust the way you operate under the new operating conditions brought on by loss of funding?
The current financial crisis is affecting all levels of government service delivery. The impact of the current severe economic downturn is likely to continue to negatively affect all local government services around the country. There may have never been a more important time than now for all of the stakeholders in government; Elected Officials, Managers, Leaders of Labor, & Concerned Citizens to work together to assure that the needs of all members of the community are addressed in the development of local public policy and service delivery.
As part of that effort, I have developed an online forum for all stakeholders to share what they have each done to improve: Service Delivery, Operational Efficiency, Cost Effectiveness & Safety for their communities and personnel. The web address is:
http://www.survivetaxcuts.com
I invite each of you to join the survivetaxcuts forum and to share your experiences, success stories and ideas to help others in government deal with current fiscal impacts on their ability to deliver service to the public. I also invite you to let others who are in local government service at any level and to those private citizens and taxpayers who are the real owners of government about this website.
Everyone needs to work together to solve todays problems. Please forward this to your friends and local government leaders.
Thank you
Ron Graner
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I just recieved this update on Atlanta FD.
DANGEROUS FIRE RESCUE COMPANY CLOSURES
Today, as a result of the reckless and irresponsible budget cuts to Atlanta Fire Rescue, seven fire companies have been closed due to lack of adequate staffing. The closures are as follows:
1. Ladder Truck 25
2. Ladder Truck 26
3. Engine 12
4. Engine 22
5. Engine 26
6. Engine 30
7. Engine 36
This is in addition to the ongoing closures of:
1. Squad 4 (HazMat and Heavy Rescue)
2. Ladder Truck 12
3. Engine 7
4. Engine 23
The hazardous materials and technical rescue response plan has also be compromised due to inadequate staffing.
These closures constitute an unacceptable risk to Atlanta's citizens and firefighters, and a complete failure on the part of Atlanta's government to fulfill its basic function of public safety.
Atlanta Professional Fire Fighters Association president Jim Daws commented, "What you're seeing today is a total unraveling of the fire protection and disaster response scheme in the City of Atlanta. Fires and other emergencies are no respecters of budget shortfalls. They will come when they will, and if Fire Rescue is unprepared to respond, lives and property will be lost. These cuts to Fire Rescue are nothing less than governmental malpractice on the part of Atlanta's elected officials, and the citizens should not stand for it."
Atlanta's citizens are asked to be especially careful and vigilant against fires today.
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