What if local water companies can’t deliver? You’ll be begging for that equipment.

What if the sewer plant goes down? You’ll want the equipment around.

We will be defending homes and businesses if wildfires break out, another tourist falls to death from Bell Rock, one of our kids goes missing in the canyons or on the rocks, a rock slide in the canyon traps cars and drivers under debris. What if another plane crashes on approach or takeoff at the airport? What is another sweat lodge incident happens? What if a bus load of tourists flips and falls off the M Bridge?

Remember when the medical flight helicopter crashed near Flag? You want volunteers to handle these situations or highly trained responders?

What’s wrong with you fire district taxpayers and board? The allure of the dark ages of volunteer fire companies seems better than the new and improved professional fire company? Is it Reaganomics? Believe me Ronnie Reagan wouldn’t cut first responders. He’d be showering them with thanks and federal $$. He and James Brady and others lived through an assassination attempt because of highly trained emergency responders, remember?

How about this Joe? Order each volunteer fireman to carry a bucket in his car to each fire. That plan will save even more dollars for the taxpayers.

As you are well aware this is a tourist town. We have visitors who sometimes get stranded on the red rocks, or have heart attacks. We have a population that I believe averages 55 years of age. Imagine if some kind of mass accident (e.g, explosion, flooding, etc.) were to occur where many people required emergency care and we didn’t have our own ambulance service. In addition, not having this service may well prevent some people from visiting, let alone living here.

They are proof how a little power corrupts big time. I had a good opinion of three of the four and voted for two of them but since the minutes and meetings THEY ALL SHOT THAT OPINION TO HELL.

Go to church on Sunday and ask forgiveness for your self righteousness. You lost our respect spreading lies to get elected (it took watching the meetings to see that you spread false rumors before the election).

Reputations matter in this town. Abuse of authority and power is UnAmerican and UnDemocratic and as a conservative Tea party Republican you four have left me with a bad taste in my mouth and I need to spit.