We have been asked by our champions in the Senate to encourage state and local public safety entities to draft a letter to the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction supporting the allocation of the D Block to public safety.
The letter should urge the Joint Select Committee to include S. 911, the Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act of 2011 in their deliberations. We’ve been asked to collect the letters and have them available for presentation at a press conference to be held on Tuesday, November 15 at 11 on the Capitol grounds (see attached map for the location). In particular, we need letters from public safety agencies, local governments, affiliates and state chapters located in Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts, Washington, Montana, Arizona, Maryland, South Carolina and California.
You are all welcome to attend the press conference on Tuesday; we also urge you to reach out to your contacts in local law enforcement, fire and EMS and ask them to be a part of the event as well. Our Senate supporters have asked to have at least 100 people in uniform at the press conference to show national support.
For your reference, attached are letters from APCO, USCM, NLC, and NGA that have already been sent to the Joint Committee.
If your organization or company has already drafted a letter and has sent it to the Committee, please send a copy of it to Yucel Ors orsy@apcomail.org as soon as possible. If your organization or company has not yet drafted a statement of support, please consider using the attached template letter.
Thank you for your support.
Webmasters Note: Linked files can be found on the KSAPCO website at http://www.ksapco.net/legislation.html.
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