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Fire at Whittlesey's
On May 5, a fire was started by a customer removing a part from a wrecked car at Whittlesey's salvage yard. An interesting account of the event was posted on YubaNet.com, and may be read by clicking here. Thanks, Pascale!

2008 Mothers' Day Scotch Broom Breakfast, Raffle, and Plant Sale!
This year's event, the 47th in the series, will be held on May 11, at the Community Hall in beautiful downtown North San Juan, beginning at 8:00 AM. This is the North San Juan Fire Auxiliary's main fundraiser for the year, and benefits both your volunteer firefighters and other worthwhile local causes. In addition to a delicious breakfast and literally hundreds of plants available for the price of a donation there will be dozens of valuable items donated by local businesses, artists, and individuals raffled off. Again this year the grand prize will be a handmade quilt donated by Mary Moore. This year's quilt, titled "Wild Rose," is an heirloom from Mary's personal collection. It is a generous twin size, or could be used on a double bed with a dust ruffle. Click here to see pictures of this remarkable work of art!

Historic Photo of Bellett Station (Sta. 3) Site
A new addition to the "Gallery" page is a photo taken in the 1940s of the site of the future Station 3. Take a peek. It's interesting. Anyone who has other interesting photos of a fire-department-related nature is urged to make them available for inclusion on this site. They will be scanned and returned unharmed.

Ordinance 2008-01
This Ordinance, titled "Establishing Rules and Regulations for Use of Fire Department Grounds," was approved at the February 19 Board meeting. Click here to view the approved ordinance.

Fiscal Year 2006-2007 Audit
Every year, most businesses have their financial procedures and condition audited by an independent outside accounting firm. In the case of public agencies such as the NSJFPD, the resulting document is open to public scrutiny. I can't imagine that anyone would actually want to read it, since it's dry as last week's toast, but far be it from me to judge anyone else's obsessions (I've got some of my own), so here it is. Suffice it to say that our audit firm was well satisfied with our internal financial procedures, and issued no "findings," that is, areas of our financial life that need serious modification.
It is gratifying to be told by this firm that we are doing a better job of carrying out our fiduciary responsibility to be good stewards of your money than most similar agencies.

Note: Many of the documents available on this site, including the budget and the District map, are in PDF format. If Acrobat Reader is not installed on your computer, you can download it free by clicking here.