
St Louis, MO
astewart@iabpf.org
Affirmative Action Committee Specific Challenges and Opportunities It is imperative that each Chapter establish an affirmative Action Committee. The size of this committee is a local chapter’s prerogative; however, “results” is the paramount goal to be achieved What should be the major efforts of this group? FIRST, to build the most comprehensive data base of information at each local level, something each Chapter should have on file now.
This complete data base file must also be at Regional Headquarters, to reduce severe duplications or efforts and information decimation.
• BASIC DATA ‘STRUCTURE:
• Any and all lawsuits filed against the Fire Department or other City/County departments of which the Chapter operates.
• Current and past copies of union contracts.
• Current and past copies of rules and regulations.
• Complete department personnel rosters.
• Current and past copies of the Fire Department organization charts.
• Complete current name and address (zip), telephone numbers of all elected officials and chief officers.
• Current C.O.I.N.S. breakdown of the Fire Department.
• A current data of promotional criteria, past and present.
To try to develop and define current Affirmative Action trends within a Fire Department without this “Basic Data Base,” would be not to offer the membership the level of service they are entitled.
A Chapter in no way could begin to establish the basic data needed that a good attorney would require to order to build a legal case.
The Chairperson of this Committee should be someone who has the tenacity to gather this core data, all of which can be obtained either at Fire Department Headquarters, Personnel Department or Record Division of City Hall (or County).
This would mean that each Chapter needs to establish a file system in order to be able to retrieve this data on a moments notice. We can no longer maintain a Chapter of this organization operating out of boxes. under some fool’s bed at home, we have long since passed that stage.
Each Affirmative Action Committee Chairperson in each Chapter would meet at least once per quarter with the Affirmative Action Committee Chairperson of all Chapters in their region. At this meeting they would exchange ideas/discuss problems/develop solutions to problems/develop action steps.
In each Region’s newsletter this committee’s actions, etc. would be publicized; this would eliminate communication breaks within a region as to the activities of this committee.
A Regional Affirmative Action Committee must be established with each Affirmative Action Chapter President as a member. This Regional Affirmative Committee Chairperson should appoint/elect a Regional secretary/vice president/communication director.
Each Regional Affirmative Action Chairperson would meet at least twice per year with the National Affirmative Action Committee which would be made up of all Regional Affirmative Action Chairpersons.
The meeting would be chaired by the “Vice President for the Affirmative Action Committee” which is an appointee of the National President.
Affirmative Action Representatives
Southeast Region Chapters | Chapter Representative | Email address | Cell number |
Brothers United Chattanooga – Co-Chair | David Brooks | dlbrook2@gmail.com | 423-505-1251 |
Phoenix Sentinels | TBT | ||
Vulcan Blazers of Baltimore Inc | Al Jarrett | aljarrett1975@gmail.com | 443-844-7168 |
PFA Charities Inc of Miami Dade | TBT | ||
Lynchburg Progressive FF Association Inc | Quincy Scott | southvastaterep@gmail.com | 434-444-0384 |
Black Fire Service Professionals of Alexandria | TBT | ||
Guardian Knights – Co Chair | Terri Reid | ser1stvicedirector@gmail.com | 443-992-2760 |
Progressive FF Assoc of D.C. | TBT | ||
Brothers United Chattanooga | Allen Green | allengreen23@yahoo.com | 423-313-4555 |
Neptune Fire Society | Aaron Webb | 980-721-0774 | |
Progressive Black Firefighter of Mobile AL | TBT | ||
Paragon Black FF of Anne Arundel County | TBT | ||
North Central Region Chapters | Chapter Representative | Email Address | Cell Number |
Chicago – Chair | Patrick L McCollum | nugrad1993@gmail.com | (708) 560-6669 |
Chicago | Rodney Shelton | rodneyshelton35@aol.com | (312) 810-8480 |
Chicago | Drewone Goldsmith | drewgoldsmith66@gmail.com | (773) 592-4718 |
Gary | Akil McCully | akilmccully1977@gmail.com | |
Gary | Kirrendan Pellebon | Kpellebon@gmail.com | |
Omaha | Brandon Stennis | Branstennis@gmail.com | |
Omaha | CJ Miller | Cjmillr@yahoo.com | |
Omaha | Julius Nero | Julius3nero@gmail.com | |
Cincinnati | |||
Cleveland | |||
Detroit | Teresa Singleton | 8phoenixrising@gmail.com | 313-995-7538 |
Detroit | Darrell Freeman | freeman.darrell@att.net | 313-363-2244 |
Flint | |||
Lansing | |||
Minneapolis | |||
St. Paul | |||
Milwaukee | |||
South Central Region Chapters | Chapter Representative | Email Address | Cell Number |
Louisville Progressive Firefighters – Co-Chair | Joseph Bivens | ||
Louisville Progressive Firefighters | Alan Cruse | mr_cruse_01@gmail.com | 270-227-2521 |
Little Rock – FLAME | Kentrell Shepard | kenshepard@gmail.com | 501-256-3392 |
Dallas Black Firefighters Association | Brandon Terry | president@dallasbffa.com | 903-245-6471 |
Baton Rouge – BRAMF | Robert Combs | Rcombs825@gmail.com | 225-936-0419 |
New Orleans – BANOFF – Co-Chair | W. Inaa McKnight | w.inaamcknight@wearebanoff.org | 504-610-2364 |
St. Louis – F.I.R.E. Retirees | Stanley Johnson | srjohnson805@yahoo.com | 314-496-5264 |
Austin | Darren Hyson | dhyson@hotmail.com | 512-913-9768 |
Houston | |||
Monroe | |||
Pine Bluff | |||
Shreveport | |||
Fort Worth | |||
Kansas City MO | |||
Kansas City KS – PRIDE | |||
Northeast Region Chapters | Chapter Representative | Email Address | Cell Number |
Vulcan Pioneers of Newark NJ – Chair | Jerrell Elliott | jerrellelliott@aol.com | 973-951-8847 |
Boston Society of Vulcan | Clyde Freeman | Bostonvulcantreasurer@gmail.com | 617-938-4186 |
Firebird Society – Bridgeport CT | Joe Kirkland | jkirk41@aol.com | 203-257-5598 |
Focus of Syracuse | Joe Fenell | jfenell@hotmail.com | 315-751-3323 |
MOCHA Sociey of Buffalo | Michael Andrews | mandrews647@gmail.com | 716-310-1895 |
Phoenix Societyof Hartford CT | Candance Young | phoenixsociety123@gmail.com | 860-680-3559 |
Vulcan Pioneers New Brunswick NJ | Eddie Lee | Eddie.lee@yahoo.com | 732-397-6655 |
Vulcan Pioneers of Newark NJ | Hussain Tyler | Newarkvylcans@outlook.com | 973-207-3829 |
Vulcan Society of New York city | Jonathan logan | vulcanpresisident@gmail.com | 718-525-1243 |
Bronze Heat Paterson NJ | Alton Dickson | fireexpo91@aol.com | 201-220-2969 |
Firefighter LeagueAdvocating Minority Equality | Lamont Muse | byroo306@aol.com | 908-627-0846 |
Vulcan Pioneers of Newark NJ – Co-Chair | Troy Harrison | chiefchap@gmail.com | 973-332-4125 |
Northwest Region Chapters | Chapter Representative | Email Address | Cell Number |
Tacoma – Chair | Tory Tolefree | ToryTolefree@icloud.com | 253-929-4045 |
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