Lake Mohave Rancheros Fire District To Whom It May Concern,

Lake Mohave Rancheros Fire District
To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Rebecca Smith and I am a 10 year resident of Dolan Springs Arizona. Two of my sons are serving in the United States Military. My oldest son serves as a Navy SARS member, the other is a newly enlisted member of the Army. My sons believe in Democracy and the Democratic process and are willing to lay down their lives to ensure that you and I always have the ability to speak and act freely. We are free to do something or do nothing. We are free to criticize or to build up. We are free to act responsibly or to hand our responsibilities to someone else.
Regarding the plight of our Fire District;  yes, a board dropped the ball. Some of the same people who SERVED on that incompetent  board are now telling you to consolidate! No responsibility, just let someone else clean up the mess. Yes, some chiefs helped to bring us to insolvency, they are GONE!  We now have an opportunity to do it right. In spite of what you are hearing, we DO have the money and we ARE capable. We have new faces in town and these people bring fresh ideas and energy.  Some of these people are well educated and have served their communities in prior areas.  They can serve here just as well.
Consolidation has been the plan all along if you go back and read the minutes. The idea that we just had to get out of debt so we could 'decide' what we wanted to do was false. This decision can, and may be made by an outside board, and one man with the approval of our supervisors, none of whom live here. This is OUR community and it is time we start acting like it.  A decision made in this manner is a slap in the face of the Democratic process which my sons are willing to sacrifice their lives for.
 To the NACFD board members, are you willing to by-pass the Democratic process in order to take possession of this fire district?  If the decision is made in the aforementioned manner, that is exactly what you will be doing. It was stated in the August NACFD board meeting that consolidation had to be a unanimous vote in order to avoid an election because the fear is that the majority of your own community would not support the consolidation. How is this Democratic???
To those saying that we are trying to undermine the consolidation; after doing further research, we are blatantly and openly opposing the consolidation, not undermining it. We are not ashamed and do not need to hide and undermine this effort. We are more than happy to share our finding with all who will listen at a town hall meeting on October 6th at 6 o'clock p.m. at the Community Center in Dolan Springs.
To the community;  how dare ANY of us sit on our rumps and not participate in this process, thus rendering my sons efforts pointless!!! We must be anxiously engaged in the pursuit of bettering our communities and ensuring that we leave something worth having to our children. I am sick of hearing that we do not have anybody who is willing or capable to serve on a board. I am also tired of being told that procuring volunteer fire fighter/EMT's is next to impossible, or that we cannot staff our district without consolidating with Northern Arizona Consolidated Fire District. That is FALSE information. The only proof we have to show for the inaccuracy of these beliefs is if we all begin to step up and take on our responsibilities as community members. We can rebuild this town. Maybe our supervisors and some of our neighbors do not believe in us, but I do! Do you?