JayT464

I have done this for 32 years and niether asked for nor recieved anything for it.....nor am I looking for anything now. But like so many have said here over and over again times have changed and to maintain an adequate cadre of volunteers, regardless of which plan is ultimately chosen, will require new methods.

Maybe you can clear something up for me, I thought the volunteers were going to save the city money because they would do the same job for free? Now you guys want to get a stipend? At what point are you no longer volunteers? 5 or 10 years down the road the stipend wont be enough, they will want more. The key to maintaining a active pool of volunteers isn't offering them dollar incentives, it's whatever you've got going on at Belltown.

You've got to look at the big picture, this shouldn't just be about what might work in 2011. The city needs to design a system that will work now, and will also work 15, 20 or 30 years from now. How much longer do the taxpayers have to suffer?

Other then Cogs' plan, have the volunteers put forth a plan????

Volunteer Plan: Stay autonomous, answer to no one, and get paid

Let us also remember that as it stands now SFRD is NOT the legal authority having jurisdiction in the volunteer districts and as such they have no legal claim to the control of them or the personnel of VFDs.

Yeah yeah yeah we all know how the system is now. The system is broken, It's time to change the charter.