To Bradford Selectboard
Gary Moore
October 02, 2025
To Bradford Selectboard
I could not be at the selectboard meeting last night as I was with my wife in the ICU at DHMC.
I owe her far more than I owe the town which I have served for over a half century including 57 years responding to fires.
I was told this morning that Chair Benjamin stated that the board never authorized the EOC to be at the fire station.
I would call your attention the Bradford Emergency Management Plan which she signed in June after it had been sent back by Vermont Emergency Management for missing items, including twice for the lack of her signature.
The cover page has her signature and her printed name stating that, "I hereby attest that the municipality has adopted NIMS and the LEMP at a warned public meeting."
On page four of the LEMP is a bold line, "Primary EOC location" Below that, Facility address: Bradford Fire Station-136 Carson Ln.
The LEMP has to be updated annually and approved by the selectboard and sent to Vermont Emergency Management.
That has been done every year since I started as EMD in the late 80s. Every board chair in that time has signed it.
Thus to say the town did not authorize the EOC to be at the fire station is false.
I would encourage everyone of you to get a copy of the LEMP from the Town Administrator and become intently familiar with it. You are the responsible parties should we have another disaster such as we had in 1998.
Believe what is printed, not what anyone may tell you who knows nothing about emergency management or the operation of an EOC.
You might also take a look the Selectboard Report in the Annual Town Report for the year ended December 31, 1998 to see what that board felt about how the disaster was managed.
While you are at it take a look at the editorial in the July 20, 1998 edition of the Burlington free Press.
Also the Editorials in the Journal Opinion of September 20, 2000 and November 1, 2000.
Not everyone shares your chair opinion of me, my abilities and my trustworthiness.
Gary W Moore
Open Letter to the Bradford Selectboard
I am resigning from the position of Emergency Management Director as of this date. I am the only one to have held that position since it was created more than 35 years ago.
I emailed Chair Benjamin on September 5 as my code for the fire station doors had been removed for a second time, asking if it would be put back as it had previously. As I did not get a reply after ten days, I went to her home today and was told I could not have access.
I cannot function as Emergency Management Director when I am denied access to the Emergency Operations Center which is in the fire station.
Apparently, I’m not trusted and I find that disturbing.
As the selectboard does not trust me, I am also resigning from the Public Safety Commission which I have chaired since its inception as the Police Commission so many years ago.
Gary W. Moore
I could not be at the selectboard meeting last night as I was with my wife in the ICU at DHMC.
I owe her far more than I owe the town which I have served for over a half century including 57 years responding to fires.
I was told this morning that Chair Benjamin stated that the board never authorized the EOC to be at the fire station.
I would call your attention the Bradford Emergency Management Plan which she signed in June after it had been sent back by Vermont Emergency Management for missing items, including twice for the lack of her signature.
The cover page has her signature and her printed name stating that, "I hereby attest that the municipality has adopted NIMS and the LEMP at a warned public meeting."
On page four of the LEMP is a bold line, "Primary EOC location" Below that, Facility address: Bradford Fire Station-136 Carson Ln.
The LEMP has to be updated annually and approved by the selectboard and sent to Vermont Emergency Management.
That has been done every year since I started as EMD in the late 80s. Every board chair in that time has signed it.
Thus to say the town did not authorize the EOC to be at the fire station is false.
I would encourage everyone of you to get a copy of the LEMP from the Town Administrator and become intently familiar with it. You are the responsible parties should we have another disaster such as we had in 1998.
Believe what is printed, not what anyone may tell you who knows nothing about emergency management or the operation of an EOC.
You might also take a look the Selectboard Report in the Annual Town Report for the year ended December 31, 1998 to see what that board felt about how the disaster was managed.
While you are at it take a look at the editorial in the July 20, 1998 edition of the Burlington free Press.
Also the Editorials in the Journal Opinion of September 20, 2000 and November 1, 2000.
Not everyone shares your chair opinion of me, my abilities and my trustworthiness.
Gary W Moore
Open Letter to the Bradford Selectboard
I am resigning from the position of Emergency Management Director as of this date. I am the only one to have held that position since it was created more than 35 years ago.
I emailed Chair Benjamin on September 5 as my code for the fire station doors had been removed for a second time, asking if it would be put back as it had previously. As I did not get a reply after ten days, I went to her home today and was told I could not have access.
I cannot function as Emergency Management Director when I am denied access to the Emergency Operations Center which is in the fire station.
Apparently, I’m not trusted and I find that disturbing.
As the selectboard does not trust me, I am also resigning from the Public Safety Commission which I have chaired since its inception as the Police Commission so many years ago.
Gary W. Moore
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