PETITION: Stop the Cuts to the Yonkers Fire Department By BARRY McGOEY

The Yonkers Firefighters of IAFF Local 628 are in the final 24 hours of a petition drive requesting members of the public to sign petitions calling on Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano and City Councilmembers to prevent the proposed cuts to the Yonkers Fire Department.

The Yonkers City Council is in the process of reviewing Mayor Mike Spano's proposed 2012-2013 Budget.  That budget calls for million of dollars of cuts to the Yonkers Fire Department's budget, a Department that has already been cut several times in the past few years of this yearly Yonkers budget crisis.  Mayor Spano's proposed budget for the Fire Department will result in: