During tonight’s East Contra Costa Fire Protection District Board meeting, the District will receive a Preliminary Engineers Report for the proposed Fire Suppression Assessment.
Tonight’s action comes after the Board cancelled their Benefit Assessment Ballot last September after it was discovered 25% of the data (or 10,000 ballots) were incorrect when determining how much each property would pay.
The result was the Benefit Assessment values were lower than anticipated—some as low as $37 instead of $103. In contrast, it increased the Benefit Assessment values in the other 32,000 ballots.
According to tonight’s staff report, the District staff and NBS have been working together over the past several months to update, compile, cross – reference and confirm the completeness and accuracy of the data needed to develop a revised version of the Engineer’s Report.
The District and NBS have located several additional data sources, including by working with our local government partners, with a focus on compiling a fully up-to-date map of all fire hydrants in the District. NBS has used this new data for cross-referencing against previously obtained data, and also has conducted various other data checking procedures and worked diligently with staff to resolve any and all questions raised through those processes.
The timeline is on February 19, questions will be directed to the Finance Committee on February 19, 2015 and a final revised Engineers report will be presented to the Board for consideration at its March 2 meeting.
If the Board approves the Engineers Report and agrees to move forward, ballots will be mailed to property owners. At present, NBS expects that ballots would be mailed no later than March 13.
Currently, NBS estimates that on April 27, 2015 a public hearing on the proposed assessment will be heard. Unless opposed by a majority of ballots returned, weighted by proposed assessment amount, the Board of Directors would then have the opportunity to determine whether to enact and levy a fire suppression assessment.
Editors Note: copies of the Engineers Report were not provided in the Board Packet and were not provided upon request. The Engineers Report will be made available during tonight’s meeting.
If you go:
East Contra Costa Fire Protection District Board Meeting
February 2: 6:30pm
3231 Main Street, Oakley CA
4 comments
The result was pissing away another hundred grand on a big waste of everyone’s time.
@ Bad commission,
Johnny what’s wrong? They aren’t letting you play fireman anymore? Kicked off of your little post? Oh that’s right, somewhere along the line you needed to be qualified. Looks to me like you are sour because someone figured out what a “big waste of everyone’s time” you turned out to be. Poser! You need to focus on fixing “Johhny” before you go trying to pissing in everyone else’s cheerios. “Bad commission, Bad supervisors”? That’s your “A” game? Thanks for the laughs.
These firefighters should get the exact pay that con fire firefighters get but they don’t. This is pure discrimination. Both East County and Con Fire are the same union and the same local. They even work side by side.Local 1230 should demand equal pay for all its members that do the exact same job.The department of labor and the firefighters of east county are being discriminated against. The east county firefighters should file a lawsuit against their union and the district for equal pay and recoup all the pay lost over the years. Stop discrimination of equal work for equal pay in local 1230. Put that in your report too.
Mike,
While I agree that ECCFPD employees are underpaid, they are not in any position to sue anyone. It has nothing to do with discrimination and has everything to do with the reality that they are not employed by Con Fire.
They are not employed by the same employer as Con Fire. While they may be in the same local (1230) which is common, that alone has nothing to do with their pay. ECCFPD fire fighters work for ECCFPD which is a “special district” and completely separate from Con Fire and the county.
A lawsuit would waste nothing but the firefighters dues and would be frivolous. This is a fact which I’m sure all those directly involved are very aware of.
Not sure where you are forming your legal opinion from but you can always check with the firefighters, the special district (ECCFPD), the county (Con Fire), the department of labor or a lawyer. They will all tell you the same thing; Your comment makes no sense.
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