Announcements
NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF STATUTORY INSTALLMENT BOND RESOLUTION
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Board of Fire Commissioners for Big Flats Fire District No. 1, Chemung County, New York, on the 25th day of January, 2010, at a special meeting, adopted a resolution authorizing the issuance and sale of a ten year statutory installment bond pursuant to Local Finance Law Section 62.10 for the purchase and financing of a new and unused 101 foot aerial vehicle. The period of probable usefulness for such item being determined to be twenty years pursuant to Local Finance Law Section 11 Paragraph a Subdivision (27). Said statutory installment bond to be in the principle amount of $500,000.00. The full text of said resolution is available to be examined at the offices of the District Secretary located at Big Flats Fire Station, 505 Maple Street, Big Flats, NY.
PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that said resolution was duly passed by the voters of the District at a special election held on February 23, 2010.
The validity of the obligations authorized by the resolution, a summary of which is published above, adopted on the 25th day of January, 2010, and duly passed at a special election held on February 23, 2010, may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which Big Flats Fire District No. 1 is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution.
Dated: February 24, 2010
03/11: Fire District Meeting
There will be a public meeting of the Big Flats Fire District #1 Board of Commissioners at the Fire Station at 6:00 pm.
Current Weather
The Town of Big Flats is located on the western border of Chemung County in the Southern Tier region of New York State. It is roughly midway between the cities of Corning and Elmira. It is comprised of a bit more than 46 square miles and Big Flats Volunteer Fire Department serves more than half of the Town. The balance is served by three other volunteer fire departments.
We are primarily a volunteer department but have one paid EMT/driver on duty 24 hours/day. Of our 60-plus members, nearly 40 are qualified, active responders. Many are New York State certified medical personnel whose training ranges from Certified First Responder to Paramedic.
We respond an average of once per day to fire/rescue and medical emergencies in our district, which is about 25 square miles made up of a mixture of village and suburban residential, (about 2,000 homes) rural, wildland interface, light industrial, including a new and rapidly growing industrial park, the largest shopping center in the region, and a commercial airport. Our district has both hydrant and non-hydrant areas.
As our community’s name implies, we are situated in a broad valley bordered on the north and south by high wooded hills and split by an interstate highway (I-86), the Norfolk-Southern Railroad and the Chemung River, which has a bad habit of flooding occasionally. We respond to all aircraft emergencies on a multi-department airport task force, as a back-up for the Elmira-Corning Regional Airport’s two aircraft crash-fire-rescue trucks and mini-pumper. Anything that can travel on wheels or wings goes through or over our district. As you can imagine, what we might lack in volume of calls, we make up for with variety. There are 20 volunteer fire departments and one paid department in Chemung County and we have a terrific mutual aid system. We routinely run mutual aid with about a half dozen departments in Chemung and Steuben counties.
We are active in our community through sponsorship of Little League Baseball and Cinderella Softball teams and work with our local Boy Scout Troop and BSA Venture Crew.
In 2001, Big Flats Fire Department proudly celebrated its 75th anniversary of service to our community.
