Fire Commissioners Ratify Postcard Vote
The postcard approved at a meeting Oct. 25 has since become a source of citizen complaints to the state Attorney General and the state Board of Elections.
At a meeting Thursday, East Greenwich Fire District Commissioners re-voted a decision made to mail a postcard to residents that outlined reasons why the district should remain autonomous. It was their first meeting since the election Nov. 6 that approved a nonbinding resolution calling for the merger of the fire district and the town. Currently, the town and the fire district are two separate governmental entities. The vote was 3-1 in favor of sending the postcard, with Commissioner Mark Gee casting the sole no vote, as he had in the original vote on Oct. 25. Commissioner Mark Schwager, who had voted in favor on Oct. 25, did not attend the Nov. 15 meeting. According EGFD lawyer Scott Spear, the re-vote was put on the agenda at his …
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11:43 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
Thanks for the update. I did receive my postcard and was curious how they were able to spend our money on this. I've been an EG resident for 25 years. The past 20 years I have been in the same house - my property taxes have doubled. In the same time frame- my fire taxes have tripled. (btw - residential fires have gone down nationally) So please explain this? This is an issue of the "Fox guarding … more ›