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OVER 1600 seedlings have been purchased and will be ready for planted this spring! If you are interested in volunteering to help plant seedlings, please visit the website to sign up: www.uppersouthplatte.org/volunteer
If you have any other questions please contact the Local 5 office at 719-596-4618
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General Membership Meetings
May 14th and 15th
0900 ~ Union Office
Hope to see everyone there!
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Its CHILI COOK-OFF TIME!!
This upcoming June 28th, the Colorado Springs Professional Firefighters will once again be hosting their annual chili cookoff at the Pikes Peak Fan fest event in downtown Colorado Springs! If your fire department would like to come down and participate - please click on the application below and fill it out. The more teams - the better the competition! This year - prizes will be given for the first place winner in each category! Questions call the Local 5 office at 719-596-4618
Download:
 Chili Cook Off Flyer 2013 packet.doc
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| Fire Chief Ale Fundraiser |
Thank you to everyone that came out to support our MDA/Rockbottom Fire Chief Ale fundraiser over the past month! The fundraiser continues until April 7th, so please feel free to stop on by and have a Fire Chief Ale in support of muscular dystrophy. We also want to thank all of the volunteers from Local 5 that helped make this event a success yet again. It was a pleasure to get to spend time with our very own Cary Sloan and Savannah Clear who are both affected with different forms of MD and both made a special appearance at Rock Bottom on ST Paddy's day! It was a great time and so many friends and family were able to stop by and share time with them both. We will continue to keep up the fight until we find a cure!
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| Benefit for ReGrow Colorado |
REGROW CO Benefit - On Sunday March 24th, at the Pikes Peak Center, the bands Civil Twilight, Hydrogen Skyline, Atlas Genius and Claymore Disco are hosting a benefit to help Colorado REGROW. A percentage of the proceeds will be donated to ReGrow CO to help with seeing that more trees are planted and we see Colorado become what it once was - please visit the facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/258690957564473/?ref=3
For more information on regrow colorado visit www.ReGrowCO.org
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| Faces of Fire Community Event |
In June of 2012 nearly 350 homes were destroyed by the Waldo Canyon Fire, and two residents lost their lives. How did such a tragedy occur? What were the atmospheric conditions that pushed the fire with such ferocity down Queens Canyon and into the Mountain Shadows neighborhood? What was it like for the residents to pack up in minutes, evacuate in a state of chaos, watch the firestorm unfold real-time on television and through social media channels, and ultimately return to their beloved neighborhood, now a sea of ash and debris?
Faces of the Fire will answer these questions while documenting and preserving the evolution of the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. Through their memories and mementos, the photo essays will tell the stories of families whose lives have been changed forever. Every resident of Mountain Shadows has their own story to tell. Read their account of what they were thinking, hearing, smelling and seeing days, hours and even minutes before the Waldo Canyon fire destroyed nearly 350 homes in their neighborhood. Connect with them through their portraits, as well as photos of the precious mementos saved from the fire or found in the aftermath. Faces of the Fire promises to be a compelling documentary of the Waldo Canyon fire as told by the Mountain Shadows residents who lived through the ordeal.
The event opens to the public on at the Gold Hill Mesa Community Center - 142 Raven Mine Dr - Hours are Wed - Sun, noon to 5, and select Friday evenings 5-7.
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| Gator's Hockey Tournament and Cary Sloan Fundraiser |
The CSFD Hockey team is once again holding the annual Gator hockey tournament this year on April 6-7th at Honnen arena on the CC campus. This is a free event for spectators and games are held against CSPD, CC teams and between the CSFD White and Black Teams. Prior to that, the team is holding a silent auction on April 4th at Jack Quinn's at 6pm, with all proceeds raised from the items auctioned to be donated to retrired Driver/Engineer Cary Sloan and his family. We did this event last year and it was a great success and we're hoping to do even better this year. We will be passing around the boot, we will have drink specials, live music and a lot of great items that were donated.
If anyone is interested in donating any items for the fundraiser, Todd Heffner is the point of contact and can be reached at 719-244-1645. Otherwise we hope to see everyone at the event for some Hockey and a great time fundraising for one of our own! Please feel free to visit www.csfdhockey.com for more information and updates!
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| Poll finds support for Colorado Firefighters |
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Statewide survey reveals 86% in favor of collective bargaining for fire fighters
DENVER- Results from a statewide survey released today by Myers Research reveals strong voter support (86%) for ensuring collective bargaining rights for Colorado fire fighters. (See attached memo.) The timely results of this survey are arriving just as a firefighter collective bargaining bill, Senate Bill 13-025, passed the Senate on Tuesday, February 6, 2013, and moves to the House.
“This survey demonstrates overwhelming support for fire fighters and to ensure that we have a seat at the table to negotiate as a group,” said Mike Rogers, President of the Colorado chapter of the International Association of Fire Fighters. “86% of voters supporting collective bargaining rights for firefighters sends a strong message to our elected officials at all level about the priorities of voters.”
Andrew Myers, president of Myers Research | Strategic Services, said, “It is rare to see such a high level of support for an issue like this. Public sentiment is clearly with firefighters on collective bargaining rights and legislators should be wary of being on the wrong side of this issue.”
The survey of over 600 voters in Colorado in late January has a margin of error of +/- 4.0. (See attached memo.) Respondents were asked the question:
And as it relates to firefighters in Colorado, do you favor or oppose allowing firefighters to negotiate with local governments over issues like better safety equipment, ensuring safe staffing levels, and health care and survivorship benefits if they are killed in the line of duty?
The bill would ensure firefighters a voice in community discussions of resources and compensation. Several fire departments already collectively bargain in Denver and Aurora. These current collective bargaining entities allow fire fighters and their employers to discuss daily service delivery, wild land operations, and acquisition of necessary first responder equipment.
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| State Bill 25 - Statewide Firefighter Collective Bargaining |
State bill 25, if passed, would place Colorado in the company of about 30 other states, by allowing governmental agencies and fire fighters to come together to address and solve workplace issues in a cooperative and productive manner, thus promoting more effective and efficient delivery of emergency services. Studies have shown that communities promoting such cooperation enjoy more effective and efficient delivery of emergency services.
The act applies only to paid fire fighters, not to volunteers. No state employees are covered nor are any other local employees. Modeled primarily on the charter provisions that have existed successfully for decades between fire fighters in Denver and Aurora, this act specifically prohibits strikes and does not create binding interest arbitration. Rather, this act creates an advisory fact-finder system that serves to bring parties together to resolve workplace issues. In the event that the parties are unwilling to accept the advisory fact-finder’s determinations, this bill places the ultimate decision of whether to adopt either of the parties’ proposals in the hands of the people of the public entity.
The act has been designed to make the process of creating bargaining units as easy as possible. Unlike in many other states that utilize a complicated administrative procedure with a public employee labor relations board to determine, on a case-by-case basis, an appropriate bargaining unit and what employees are in that unit, this act has clear and simple definition of fire fighter based on the statute that created the Fire and Police Pension Association. Thus the only administrative involvement by the State would be for the Director of Labor to contact the American Arbitration Association, an experienced non-profit body, so it can conduct an election (if the public entity does not voluntarily recognize the employee organization).
For example of how this system would work, let’s say a group of non-unionized fire fighters in a city/district have some safety concerns related to the fire resistance of their uniforms. Today, the only thing those fire fighters can do is try to talk to their administration or elected officials. In some cities/districts they are even prohibited from talking with the elected officials. Even if they are allowed to talk, there is no assurance that they will be heard. Under this act, once the employee organization becomes the bargaining agent, this issue, including its necessity and cost, can be part of a process that requires good faith negotiations by both sides. Such negotiations involve the exchange of information and ideas and often result in give and take that leaves both sides better off. If the parties reach an impasse on this or other issues, they present their facts and arguments to an advisory fact-finder in a hearing and receive a recommendation as to each of issues at impasse. If either party disagrees with the advisory fact-finder’s recommendations, a special election, paid for by the party rejecting those recommendations, will be held, presenting each of the party’s proposals to the electorate. The whole process is designed to encourage voluntary agreements, to prohibit unnecessarily prolonged negotiations and to fit with the budgeting requirements of the public employer. In terms of the bottom line, this means, no union-requested expenditures, pay increases, or changes in benefits for fire fighters, unless either the employer agrees with a union’s request, or unless a majority of people in the local community agree that the union’s proposal is appropriate. The act does no more than create a fair process for fire fighters and cities/districts to present their concerns and evidence to each other or to a neutral in an effort to reach an agreement. If those efforts fail, the voters have the final authority over the compensation, hours and working conditions of their fire fighters.
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| FIREFIGHTER of the YEAR |
On 2/1/13, the Colorado Springs Fire department hosted their annual Awards Banquet at the Doubletree hotel. Many were honored at the ceremony for their dedicated service and heroisim over the past year. IAFF Local 5 would like to congratulate 2 of our members: Jim Schanel for winning CSFD Firefighter of the year and Preston Frey for winning Local 5 Firefighter of the year last night at the 2013 CSFD Awards banquet! CONGRATS!
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| ALTS 2013 |
On January 20/21/22, brothers Dave Noblitt, Rudy, Ian Bruzenak and Kevin Simpson attended the 2013 Affiliate Training and Leadership Summit (ALTS) in Phoenix Arizona. They attended classes in communication, first amendment law, firefighter safety and health, working with the press, fighting service/perfromance level threats and more! They were also able to attend a special viewing of the Detroit fire documentary "BURN". The information obtained at this training will be utilized as apparopriate within our local to help make us better and stronger. If you have any questions regarding the classes and what was learned, please contact any of the above E-board members.
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