Educating The Public On The Spending Of Their $$

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A good way to educate the public in your town is with a newsletter a few times a year. You can put all kinds of information in it and let the taxpayers know what your doing and what you would like to do. We talked about doing it in our dept but never got it off the ground. As far as rear-mounts we have one in North White Plains, Ladder 47. When we wanted to purchase it a few years ago it had to go out to a district-wide vote. It was voted down, the reason being there was a small group that didn't think we should purchase a new piece of equipment. They went out the night before the vote and stuffed mailboxes with false information about how much their taxes would go up. We were able to go a differant route and find money differant ways and purchase it. Our last apparatus purchase was in the early 80's.