Your right rescue5271 about the point of the summer issues that we could be facing and the need to be prepared. Didn't Euen have an idea and called it Sherpa. How much do we know about Sherpa besides the dot points that are available from VFBA website. Maybe we need to look at the flexibility of service and the types of service that are delivered from brigades and seas units.
Maybe the idea of the Salisbury reserve unit needs to be expanded upon. I think some brigade maybe more useful as brigades that gets deployed elsewhere. Where the dollar matter we need to look at the standards of fire cover and brigade classification along with membership types as some brigade might have members that can more dedicated than others. i.e. those that want to attend everything and those that want to be a part of the brigade look after the local properties.
I personally believe that it the type of service we wants needs to be debated here before we go down the paid or not paid line or is the VFBA a clawless tiger or not.
Maybe the idea of the Salisbury reserve unit needs to be expanded upon. I think some brigade maybe more useful as brigades that gets deployed elsewhere. Where the dollar matter we need to look at the standards of fire cover and brigade classification along with membership types as some brigade might have members that can more dedicated than others. i.e. those that want to attend everything and those that want to be a part of the brigade look after the local properties.
I personally believe that it the type of service we wants needs to be debated here before we go down the paid or not paid line or is the VFBA a clawless tiger or not.