In the shadow of the largest election landslide in Thurston County’s history we want to take a moment and thank everyone who worked so hard to help us enhance the service we provide to the community. For us, it was an important vote of confidence to the street fire fighter...
Category Archives: City/District fight
Service and Trust
In the 5th quarter debate of the Lakewood shooting, I am impressed at the phenomenal amount of finger pointing that is now deservedly occurring at all sorts of political camps and governmental agencies. Obviously, some of the criticism is deserved and the question now is really over their respective political salvation...
Who is the CAC?
For many Lacey resident’s the first time they ever heard of the City of Lacey Citizen Advisory Committee (or CAC) was when Mayor Sackrison added a report to the agenda from this group just minutes into the October 22, 2009 City Council Meeting. There was some earlier mention of the CAC...
We understand who our boss is.
If you haven’t heard, the three challengers to the Lacey City council, including Ron Lawson, Cynthia Pratt, and Andy Ryder, all won their elections. Its fairly rare that three incumbents including the mayor*, deputy mayor, and the senior most member of city council are voted out…Not...
Cust Cutting Cities End Cooperation.
In Southeast Washington, the City of Clarkston is starting its own ambulance service but appears to be under staffing its response. As a result, surrounding areas have been getting beat up and/or no longer interested in maintaining a “Mutual Aid” agreement with the City of Clarkston. This story sounds familiar already… I guess some people...
City of Edmonds to End Its Fire Department
A hallmark of City of Lacey fire department comparisons is throwing in the towel on its own fire department. Citing increasing costs of providing fire service and the fact that other surrounding cities such as Mountlake Terrace saved money by allowing county fire agencies to provide the service, the city of Edmonds...
And the “Graemey” goes to…
For those of you who didn’t tune into channel 3 last night, the Lacey Mayor added to the agenda, just hours before the meeting, critical items that quite clearly had been planned for weeks. This determined lack of respect for the process of involving the community in...
We Are Not Against Business!
The fact is that if you took the title, and all of the ”union” attributes and trimmings away from the Lacey Fire Fighters, you wouldn’t see an ounce of difference in current events. It would still be a group of men and women who work daily as service professionals, significantly...
Yakima incident proves that emergency services must keep up with growth.
Its the same deal here…We’re just waiting for our incident. God willing, no one will die but the risk is clearly there. Click here for the link.