July 30th 2010

President's Message

By Bob Monize, LEOFF I Coalition President and input from Dave Peery, Seattle Fire Local #27 and Don Daniels, Ret. Seattle PD Officer and Mark Curtis, Ret. Thurston Co. S.O. Deputy Sheriff

We have just over 4,000 people in the Coalition. Other brother organizations occasionally lobby for change and, on a case by case basis, we review their proposals and decide whether the requested changes are important enough to risk opening LEOFF I law to achieve them. We have stood in support of those issues we felt were appropriate and simply chose to remain silent when in disagreement. We communicate with our brother organizations as we feel appropriate in the protection of the current laws regarding member pensions.

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