CALL TO ACTION: The citizens of El Segundo need your help

by Michael D. Robbins
Director, Public Safety Project, PublicSafetyProject.org

January 2, 2011

This is an urgent Call to Action. The citizens of El Segundo need your help. They are about to lose their city fire department and paramedic transport service as a result of excessive and unsustainable labor union contracts – especially the fire and police union contracts.

Here is what you can do to help:

First, email this web page URL to everyone you know who may be interested and may want to help:

http://PublicSafetyProject.org/elsegundo/elsegundo_payroll.html

Second, if you want to help in other ways, send an email to the Public Safety Project using the following email address, and provide your name, contact information, and your offer to help. Put “WANT TO HELP” in the subject line. Thank you very much.

Third, if you live or work in El Segundo, and you want to save our fire department from a takeover by Los Angeles County, and loss of our Paramedic Transport service, then please send an email to the Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and each of the other City Council members.

Their email address appear below, followed by a sample email message. If you click on each of the email links, it should open up your email client program and pre-fill the email address, subject field, and message body field with a sample email, which you can change using information from this web site or other information or thoughts you may have.

Mayor Eric Busch
EBusch@ElSegundo.org

Mayor Pro Tem Bill Fisher
BFisher@ElSegundo.org

Councilwoman Suzanne Fuentes
SFuentes@ElSegundo.org

Councilman Carl Jacobson
CJacobson@ElSegundo.org

Councilman Dr. Don Brann
DBrann@ElSegundo.org

SAMPLE EMAIL:

To: EBusch@ElSegundo.org
Subject: Keep our local fire department and cut the union pay

Dear Mayor Busch,

Please keep our local fire department and vote against any further action towards a Los Angeles County takeover of our fire services. We do not want to lose our locally controlled paramedic transport service.

The real problem is excessive and unsustainable city employee union contracts, especially the fire and police union contracts.

Also, vote against tax increases and new fees on residents or businesses, including a new trash tax or fee. The fire and police union pay, benefits, and pensions are the primary cause of our city’s financial problems and that is where most of the spending cuts must come from.

Thank you for your consideration in this important matter.