July 23, 2020 King County Paramedics – IAFF Local 2595Post Office Box 5310 Kent, WA 98064 – 5310 ****OPEN LEITER TO THE CITIZENS OF KING COUNTY•••• We wish we had the answers to racial inequality and racism. We don’t, but we recognize that African American communities are in pain and rightfully so. The lAFF Local […]
Legislation/Cronovirus/Riots
Many have recently received a mailing from the Coalition. It looks like a membership application but really is just another fundraiser. We recommend you ignore it. We detail our reasoning here. We have been quiet for some time. There are reasons for that. First there was not much to report since the last session of […]
Can they defund the pension?
Several people have contact us about the demand by the protestors and rioters in Seattle that they defund the police and pensions as well. Well, they can’t. Take a look at this article from Newsweek that explains the issue quite well. A demand from demonstrators in Seattle’s Capitol Hill Organized/Occupied Protest (CHOP) to scrap funding […]
Coalition Creates Membership
We were excited to see the Coalition move to create a membership organization. Sadly, they have failed in that effort and just created another fund-raising venue. View their new by-laws. At LEOFF1.Net we have always objected to the Coalition’s claim to represent all LEOFF 1 members, active, retired or beneficiary simply because they have never […]
RFFOW President’s Message | June 2020
Normally we extract Dick’s report and publish it here. However, this month the newsletter is longer. So we are publishing it in full as a PDF document. Please click to View newsletter. I am disappointed to report that we have only received about 1800 survey responses. When we first discussed the general mailing to 6,900 […]
Open Letter to LEOFF 1 Members
by Ken Crowder, Director WSRPOA On April 8 some of you received an email from WSRDSPOA, that appears to have been written and forwarded by Joyce Willms to them to forward to their members. I am disappointed that Joe Dawson, President of WSRDSPOA, allows his organization to be manipulated by Ms. Willms and the Coalition. […]
RFFOW President’s Message | April 2020
by Richard Warbrouck, President RFFOW I hope all is as well as can be expected during this most difficult time. At this point it has been reported that six Seattle police officers and ten Seattle firefighters have tested positive for COVID-19. It appears that once the Coronavirus starts in a group it spreads like fire. […]
HB 2051 Passes Both Houses
HB 2051: With the help of Representative John Lovick and four Senators in Senate leadership positions, Steve Conway Vice President Pro Tempore, John McCoy Caucus Chair, Marko Liias Floor Leader and Mark Schoesler Minority Leader, our bill HB 2051 was passed by the Senate as amended. The amendment will allow a surviving spouse to be […]
LEOFF 1 2020 COLA
The LEOFF 1 COLA for 2020 will be 2.14%. This is for anyone who retired prior to April 2, 2018. See the table below if your retired after that date. Retirement Dates COLA April 2, 2019 to March 31, 2020 0.00% January 1, 2019 to April 1, 2019 2.14% April 2, 2018 to December 31, […]
Coalition Newsletter Misleads
Many of you may have received the latest Newsletter from the LEOFF 1 Coalition. They go to great length to demonstrate how they represent LEOFF 1 members and, also. to attempt to alarm LEOFF 1 members by claiming that an attack on the system is imminent. The newsletter is eight pages in length and is […]