Contact: Taft Matney Date: September 10, 2011 Phone: 864/505-8866 E-Mail: taft@taftmatney.com Tomorrow, September 11, 2011 the Boiling Springs Fire District (Greenville County, SC) will hold a brief 9/11 remembrance ceremony at its headquarters located at 5020 Pelham Road in Greenville to observe the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks against the United States. The […]
Archives for September 2011
We Did It: A Case Study
To keep its ISO rating (the rating used to determine property insurance premiums across the country), a fire district needed to build a new station. Its county council was initially unwilling to support approval for a bond to purchase it. Working with TMPR, the district presented its situation to local media outlets who took turns […]
FIRE DEPARTMENTS REQUIRE MONEY TO MEET NEEDS
By Butch KirvenPublished Sunday, September 4, 2011The Greenville NewsSection 9A — http://bit.ly/qDmZ98 Greenville County is notoriously tightfisted with tax dollars. The last time County Council raised tax millage for the county’s general fund operations was 1993. Since then County Council has consistently decreased tax millage. Aside from its own business, County Council is the approving […]
RESIDENTS BACK NEW FIRE STATION
By Anna LeeStaff Writerzlee@greenvillenews.comSeptember 7, 2011Section B2 — http://bit.ly/poakca Business owners and residents who came to Greenville County Square on Tuesday night all had one agenda: to support the Boiling Springs Fire District. Each had three minutes or less to ask County Council to consider issuing a $2 million bond that would allow the fire […]
