DEAR COLLEAGUES
We need as many Fire Chiefs or campus fire officials as
possible to send permission to Senator Edwards aide (Crystal Bennett) to use
your name as a co-signer on a letter supporting Senator Edwards' bill (SB
2100). This bill would create a grant program of $100 million each year for
5 years as a matching programs designated to install fire sprinklers in
university student housing, fraternity and sorority houses. This would be
impact legislation on the issue of safe student housing and is desperately
needed. Too many universities use the excuse of "costs too much" to delay
or deny installation of fire sprinklers.
Please pass this along and consider supporting this fire protection
legislation. We recovered 5 student bodies from a fraternity house fire
here in Chapel Hill that would have lived had there been a sprinkler system
in the house. The scenario has been repeated elsewhere in the country and
this legislation would help us reduce that risk.
Contact Crystal at the email address below to express your support and give
permission to use your name and title or fax her your support at
202-228-1374. I will appreciate your support, firefighters in
university/college communities will appreciate your support, but most of all
parents on students will appreciate your support. Thank you.
DAN JONES
Dan Jones
Fire Chief, Chapel Hill NC
Past Chairman of Board, ISFSI
Phone 919-968-2783
Fax 919-932-2956
Page 919-216-1499
302 N. Columbia Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 1:01 PM
To: Dan Jones
Subject: Re:RE: letter of support
We will need different forms at different stages. First, we need a letter
with
as many "signatures" as possible from fire chiefs across the country. (If
we
have at least a dozen or so names, their permission to use their name and
title
in lieu of an actual signature will be fine. We would just list their names
and
titles at the end of the letter. Hopefully this will make obtaining the
"signatures" relatively easy.) My hope is to send this letter with the
"dear
colleague" to Senators (so they could see that their constituents/fire
chiefs
support the legislation).
A couple of weeks after we get the "dear colleague" out will be the time for
lobbying Senators -- letters from individual supporters, phone calls,
visits,
etc. This will also be the time for lobbying House members i.e. possibly
getting one to introduce the sprinkler bill in the House.
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Subject: RE: letter of support
Author: Dan Jones <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 4/4/00 10:13 AM
CRYSTAL
There are several ways to go about marshalling this support. If you
can tell me what form the support needs to take and where it should be
directed I will get the ball rolling for you with the Fire Chiefs.
DAN J.
-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 9:47 PM
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Subject: letter of support
Chief Jones,
Thank you so much for sending me a copy of the article you were featured in
last
week. I'm keeping it in my "sprinkler legislation" file.
We're just about ready to send around a "Dear Colleague" letter to all of
the
Senators explaining the legislation and asking them to co-sign it.
I told my legislative director about the listserv that you have, and she
wanted
to know if there is any way we can get fire chiefs from across the country
to
sign on to a letter similar to the one you wrote for us supporting the
legislation.
If this is possible, could you send a letter to the fire chiefs and ask for
their permission to use their name and title.
Please call or email me with any suggestions or comments.
Thank you.
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