Resolution No. 28 – Censure of Jack Snook, Joe Parrott, Dave Austin and Cameron Phillips

Resolution No. 28
COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENT: Resolutions
Re: Censure of Emergency Services Consulting International (ESCI) – Substitute Adopted Unanimously

1	WHEREAS, IAFF Local 3631 represents 960
2	professional fire fighters, paramedics, training
3	officers, Hazmat specialists, aircraft rescue fire
4	fighters, helicopter pilots, bulldozer operators, hand-
5	crew personnel, and FEMA California Task Force 5
6	personnel; and
7	WHEREAS, Orange County Fire Authority
8	(OCFA) fire fighters proudly serve 1.7 million
9	citizens in 24 cities in Orange County, California;
10	and
11	WHEREAS, OCFA management has pursued
12	staffing cuts in recent months that are detrimental
13	to public safety and that directly threaten the safety
14	and the livelihood of professional fire fighters in
15	Orange County; and
16	WHEREAS, one of those actions was to retain
17	the services of Emergency Services Consulting
18	International (ESCI) to author a new “Standards of
19	Cover Report” that offers to impose adverse
20	fundamental changes to the time-tested and safe
21	staffing and deployment systems of the OCFA; and
22	WHEREAS, the SOC Report was prepared and
23	completed by Jack Snook, Joe Parrott, Dave
24	Austin, and Cameron Phillips without any
25	involvement or input by labor or rank-and-file
26	members, and labor as well as the Joint Powers
27	Authority Board was excluded from reviewing or
28	providing input into the final document before it
29	was provided to the media; and
30	WHEREAS, the SOC Report offered by Jack
31	Snook, Joe Parrott, Dave Austin, and Cameron
32	Phillips included firehouse closures, reduced
33	fire engines, reduced fire fighter daily staffing,
34	reductions in company staffing from four personnel
35	to three personnel, and proposed changes to the
36	current shift schedule and working conditions to the
37	detriment of IAFF members; and
38	WHEREAS, the Report recommended an
39	extreme, dangerous, and unwarranted reduction in
40	ALS staffing, including a reduction in daily as well
41	as per-unit fire fighter ALS staffing; and
42	WHEREAS, Jack Snook, Joe Parrott, Dave
43	Austin, and Cameron Phillips used inaccurate
44	information and flawed data to justify a decrease
45	in professional fire fighters; and
46	WHEREAS, Jack Snook is a proponent of
47	volunteer fire fighters and “combination” fire
48	departments and even authored a guidebook titled
49	“Recruiting, Training, and Maintaining Volunteer
50	Firefighters”; therefore be it
51	RESOLVED, That The International Association
52	of Fire Fighters formally censures Jack Snook, Joe
53	Parrott, Dave Austin, and Cameron Phillips; and be
54	it further
55	RESOLVED, That the IAFF urge the
56	International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and
57	its affiliate company ESCI to support and promote
58	the national consensus standards and the Commission
59	on Fire Accreditation International (CFAI)
60	accreditation process in all consultant work with fire
61	departments throughout the U.S. and Canada; and be
62	it further
63	RESOLVED, That notice of this censure be
64	disseminated to ESCI and its officers, all IAFF
65	affiliates, and IAFC.

Submitted by: Local 3631, Orange County, CA
Cost Estimate: None

Resolution No. 28 – Censure of Jack Snook, Joe Parrott, Dave Austin and Cameron Phillips

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