Dick Warbrouck
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RFFOW December 2011 Report
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 12/2/2011
- RFFOW
The Special Session of the Legislature was called to order on Monday November 28, 2011. The Governor was forced to call the Special Session to cut an additional 2 billion dollars in the State's 32.2 billion dollar budget. Governor Gregoire proposed asking the voters to approve a half cent increase in the sales tax which would generate 500 million dollars in the next fiscal year. Any increases in taxes would have to be approved by two-thirds vote of the legislators or approved by the voters.
RFFOW Presidents Message for November 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 10/26/2011
- RFFOW
RFFOW President's Message for October 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 09/28/2011
- RFFOW
RFFOW President's Report for September 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 08/29/2011
- RFFOW
August Merger Committee Meeting
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 08/29/2011
- HB 2097
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RFFOW President's Report for August 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 07/26/2011
- RFFOW
When House Bill 2097 was Introduced in the wee hours of the legislative session, a total surprise to us and other LEOFF1 organizations, you were asked to contact your legislators which many of you did and I want to thank you. At that time, many of the responses from legislators that we received and those that were forwarded to us from our members stated that they were misled by the proponents, Kelly Fox and Bud Sizemore, the President and Legislative Liaison of the Washington State Council of Firefighters.
RFFOW President's June 2011 Message
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 05/31/2011
- HB 2097 , RFFOW
HB 2097 Held in Committee
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 05/30/2011
- HB 2097
We managed to hold HB 2097 in committee as of 9:30 Wednesday night when the legislative session came to a close. When I left they still had a few bills that had been amended in either the House or Senate to consider for final passage. They passed HB 1087 that authorizes, in Sec 105, the Actuary to conduct a study to determine the fiscal impact of a merger of LEOFF 1 and LEOFF 2.
Dick Warbrouck/Kelly Fox Conversation
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 05/5/2011
- HB 2097
Now that Steve Nelsen has the legal opinion from Klausner he insists that he has not read the opinion and says he will not read it until it is available to everyone.
RFFOW President's Message for May 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 04/26/2011
- RFFOW
RFFOW President’s Message for April 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 04/8/2011
- RFFOW
RFFOW March 2011 President's Message
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 02/21/2011
- RFFOW
RFFOW President's Report for February 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 02/1/2011
- RFFOW
RFFOW Report for January 2011
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 12/27/2010
- RFFOW
Governor's pension proposals
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 12/19/2010
- Pension Watch
They primarily affect members of Plans 1, new hires, and higher education retirement plans.
Warbrouck Comments on Governor's Press Conference
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 12/16/2010
- Pension Watch
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RFFOW President's Report for December 2010
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 12/1/2010
- RFFOW
RFFOW November Report
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 10/27/2010
- RFFOW
News from the Washington State Investment Board (WSIB)
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 10/27/2010
- Stuff
I was honored to be asked to write about the Washington State Investment Board (WSIB) for the Retired Firefighters of Washington's annual newsletter. As firefighters, your job was to protect the lives and property of the residents in your communities. Our job at the WSIB is to protect your hard-earned retirement dollars. My commitment to that objective was reinforced on a personal level shortly after I joined the WSIB. I was in Arizona on business when I went to visit my uncle, a retired Seattle firefighter, who with my aunt is living out his retirement dream in Tucson. Naturally, having a niece now working at the WSIB, one of his first comments to me was "I sure hope you are taking good care of our money."
THERESA WHITMARSH, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WSIB
RFFOW October 2010 President's Report
- By Dick Warbrouck
- Published 10/27/2010
- RFFOW

