A.F.D.C.A. CALL TO ACTION!!!
See the attached from Vice President of Association of Fire Districts of Nassau County on
Bill # A08501. Its important that you pass this on to all your Districts and Fire Depts in your region. Nassau county started last night and we e-mailed over 24,000 e-mails and blew up the Assembly server. When it gets back on we want to have it start going crazy again. This is important or we will be out of business. This is a serious matter and on high alert. The Senate also has a bill in committee. We must do all this before Monday morning when they come back in session. I also will be e-mailing you for a possible meeting in Albany on Monday. I will let you know if it is a go at a latter time.
Frank A. Nocerino
Secretary/Treasurer
In a message dated 05/27/09 16:16:24 Eastern Daylight Time, IT WAS WRITTEN:
To all members & supporters of the Fire Service in NYS,
PLEASE FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ALL FIRE SERVICE PERSONNEL, FAMILY, FRIENDS & SUPPORTERS. WE NEED YOUR HELP
This email is in reference to Assembly Bill No. 8501/Senate Bill No. S5651, which has been proposed this past week at the request of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo that would allow for the consolidation or dissolution of local governments, which includes fire districts & independent fire companies. While we share the Attorney General’s concern as real property tax payers that steps need to be taken to make Long Island and New York State more affordable for people who own real property; we believe that this bill is not the solution to this problem and not even a good first step. As volunteer firefighters, volunteer publicly elected fire commissioners and taxpayer supporters of the volunteer fire service, we need to be concerned about the impact that this bill will have on the volunteer fire service. We believe that it has the potential to do considerable damage to a volunteer system which saves the state and local governments billions of dollars each year.
It is important to remember that if we make legislative changes that adversely impact this volunteer system, our only alternative will be a paid system that will cost the real property taxpayers in our communities even more. The financial crisis that the state and federal government are addressing further emphasizes the importance of preserving the best value in local government finance, the volunteer fire service.
We need to make our concerns known to AG Andrew Cuomo, all NYS Assembly people & Senators that we are opposed to this legislation. As a means to show your opposition, we have created a link to the AFDNC web site that will generate an email to be sent out to ALL NYS Assembly people & Senators stating our concerns as to why this bill would not provide the solution they are looking for.
We can only make our dissatisfaction with this bill known with your support. Please follow the instructions below and our message will get heard.
As Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was portrayed in the film Pearl Harbor as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant." Let's show our Attorney General and Legislators that "Yes" that is exactly what they have done.
Thanks again for all your help, cooperation and support.
Please click on the following link: http://www.afdnc.com
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