Meet the candidates for Fire Committee - Valley Breeze
CUMBERLAND - Seven people will make up the town's brand-new Cumberland Fire Committee - one from each of the five Town Council districts and two representing the entire town as at-large members. most in their 50s and 60s. And all but two - Frank Matta and Gene Sartini - have either served in the fire service industry or on an elected fire board. The seven members, running without party affiliation, will take over for the four district boards immediately after their election is certified with a long agenda to tackle, beginning with organizing themselves and reviewing the work of a... The group will inherit what remains of combined operating budgets of some $7 million from the four districts to run four stations with 53 firefighters through June 30, 2015. In early June, under the legislative plan adopted by the General Assembly... Taxpayers will, however, have a means of changing the budget. According to the legislation, they will have 14 days to gather the signatures of 4 percent of the electors, about 1,000 registered voters, to call for a referendum on any item on the adopted budget, either to increase or decrease it. In this... Frank Matta. Source: www.valleybreeze.com
