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March 2008 Meeting Minutes

Please check the Member Resrource area on left side of the web page for the March meeting minutes.

VPFF Legislative Tracking Page

Click on the following link to view and track the bills that the VPFF is supporting, monitoring and opposing.  If you have any questions about any of these bills please contact VP Beasley. http://www.vpff.org/Legislative/gar2008.htm

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What's New at IAFF 2803
Success Story - Click Here for Full Story

Updated On: Feb 03, 2008 (14:20:00)

Election a Win for Local 2803

The Local was very successful in our efforts to help elect members to the Board of Supervisors who are willing to listen to and address our issues. The candidates the Local supported are very thankful for all of the help they received from the members of the Local. Of the five candidates the Local endorsed the following four were elected to the Board: Marleen Durfee, Dan Gecker, Art Warren, and Jim Holland.

Brothers and Sisters - Click Here for Full Story

Updated On: Feb 03, 2008 (14:24:00)

Letter form Endorsment Committee Chairman

Tuesday, November 6, 2007 was an historic day for local 2803.  The hard work of our members paid dividends when 4 of the 5 candidates we endorsed won their election bids.  Since Mid June our members have been working towards the fantastic results of yesterday.  Many hours have been spent working toward this unprecedented victory. 

How the General Assembly Kills Bills

Updated On: Feb 03, 2008 (14:21:00)

Editorial

Charlottesville Daily Progress

Call it the gulag of lawmaking.

Proposed bills go into the darkness and there they are killed, no spotlight, no fingerprints.

The General Assembly continues to cloak in secrecy some of its most basic decisions, those concerning the life or death of proposed laws. A bill to change this was defeated on a largely partisan vote during the very first hour the legislature was in session.

Here's the background:

Two years ago, the GOP majority in the House of Delegates used its new power to change the legislative rules under which the House operated. Bills that went to subcommittee for evaluation could be killed there - with no recorded vote.

Previously, subcommittees had recommended the fate of legislation to their full committees.

Although the committees often accepted those recommendations with little or no discussion, at least there was a chance for further discussion. And there was a record of who voted for or against sending the bill forward to the House.

Constituents could find out not only what happened to a bill, but who made it happen. The old system provided openness and accountability.

Proponents of the change argued that the new system streamlined the handling of bills. Certainly, the Assembly carries a heavy load. Bad legislation has been slipping through more often of late, perhaps because lawmakers lack sufficient time to scrutinize legislation effectively.

Maybe lawmakers should self-regulate and simply not submit so many bills.

Proponents also pointed out at the time that the subcommittee meetings were open to the public. Members of the public pointed out that the subcommittee members huddled together at tables set at a sufficient distance that spectators seldom could hear what was happening. There were no microphones and scant effort by the subcommittee members to make their voices heard.

Another key criticism was that the new system gave small subcommittees vast and unwarranted power. A handful of legislators, acting without accountability, continue hold life-and-death power over all the bills that come their way.

A recorded vote is the only way members of the public could know which lawmakers voted to kill legislation. Even citizens with the time and hardihood to trek to Richmond and sit in on meetings couldn’t find out what was happening.

Nearly 800 bills died in this way last year, said Del. Kenneth R. Plum, D-Fairfax, who presented this year’s unsuccessful bill to prevent proposed laws from being anonymously killed in subcommittee.

The public's right to know is a basic tenet of all we do, said Del. Kenneth R. Plum, D-Fairfax, harking back to the foundational principles established by Jefferson, Madison and others.

At least, it ought to be a basic tenet of the legislature.

But this legislature makes a more ominous choice. It sends proposed laws to secret, silent deaths at the hands of shadowy subcommittees.

Laws go in, but they may not come out - and no one will admit at whose hands they died.

IAFF Wins Passage of HELPS Retirees Bill

Updated On: Feb 03, 2008 (14:24:00)

IAFF Wins Passage of HELPS Retirees Bill August 4, 2006 – The IAFF has won an unprecedented congressional victory in the successful passage of its HELPs retiree health care proposal and the elimination of early withdraw penalties from Deferred Retirement Option Program (DROP) accounts. Both proposals have been top IAFF legislative priorities this year.

http://www.ncpers.org/artman/uploads/hr4provisions_ncpers.pdf

Welcome to the New Web Site - Click Here

Updated On: Feb 10, 2006 (12:02:00)

With this new web site, the Executive Board hopes to keep the members of Local 2803 better informed about what the local is working on.

Liberty Mutual Insurance

Updated On: Jul 08, 2007 (13:54:00)

The IAFF-FC and Liberty Mutual have teamed up to bring IAFF members and retirees a Group Discount on Auto, home and renters Insurance.


Download: LM Web Site Copy 2007.doc

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