Help Improve Emergency Services
If you think what we are attempting to do is valuable and will help preserve your home, life, and property, there are a whole bunch of ways you can help us. Projects like building a new fire station get done in most counties only when the citizens demand them, so your voice really does matter!
Join Our Mailing List
We send out regular emails updating our friends and neighbors on the status of our effort, and listing ways to help. If you'd like to be on this list, simply click here and send us an email with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line. If you decide you want to be removed, do the same thing with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line.
Help Gather Signatures
To get the Board of County Commissioners to put the formation of a special improvement district on the November 2010 ballot, we either have to convince them by lobbying them, or we need to present a petition signed by more than 10% of the registered voters in the proposed district. Then, the Board is required to put the question to a vote. Gathering signatures gives you the opportunity to meet your neighbors, and do something that is both low cost and really positive for your community. We need people in EVERY neighborhood.
Lobby Your Commissioner
Sierra Fire is in three Commissioner Districts, and the improvement brought by building the new station would be entirely in District 2, David Humke's District. Each Commissioner is interested in helping improve public safety, and if we tell them about our work, they are more likely to be supportive. Whether or not they respond, they always read their email and take note of it, so emailing your Commissioner and urging them to support this effort will be very effective. Click here to email Commissioner Humke.
Our other Commissioners, all dedicated to protecting the citizens, are John Breternitz, Kitty Jung, Bob Larkin, and Bonnie Weber. Click on the last name to send an email to one of them. Sierra Fire is also in Mr. Breternitz' and Ms. Weber's districts.
Talk to Your Neighbors
When this gets on the ballot, we need more than 50% of the voters to approve it to go forward and build the station and improve our fire and EMS response. Talking to your neighbors about what we are doing together is very powerful. Reminding them that the difference between surviving or not surviving a medical or fire emergency may well be $50 or $100 a year for five years is important.
