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Fireman’s Contractors, Inc. First Franchisee Launch A Success

DALLAS, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Fireman’s Contractors, Inc. (FRCN), a commercial contractor offering franchises and commercial services in the pavement and parking lot maintenance industry, announced a successful launch of its first Fireman’s Contractors franchise – “Station 1.” The franchise was launched in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex and began operations on July 1, 2012. The company held an official ribbon cutting ceremony on July 14th, 2012, to commemorate the event.

 
Renee Gilmore, CEO of Fireman’s Contractors, stated: “It’s an exciting time for our Company as we are having tremendous interest shown by new potential franchisees. Launching of our first franchise has bred excitement and helped expose our franchise opportunity to other quality individuals and entrepreneurs. Mr. Fred Hermosillo, who has almost 20 years of experience in the pavement industry, seized the opportunity to own the first franchise, and we both are looking forward to Station 1 being a great success.”

 
Part of the support Fireman’s offers its new franchisees is representation at the AATC – AAGD Business Exchange Trade Show. This trade show has more than 200 executives from over 50 property management companies, and provides great opportunity to meet one-on-one with decision makers. The event will be held on August 16, 2012, at the Arlington Convention Center.

 
CEO, Renee Gilmore continued by stating: “Since last year’s attendance at the AATC-AAGD Business Exchange, Fireman’s not only gained a lot of new customers, but repeat business is up from 36% to 60% this fiscal year.”

 
Fireman’s is also a member of the International Franchise Association (IFA), and a partner in the VetFran initiative, offering veterans financial incentives after they have returned home from serving our country. Fireman’s franchise development program provides training and support for new franchisees, including the Firebase™ software program aimed to assist the Company and its franchisees in expanding its market share by streamlining the contractor’s business management process.
Previously Fireman’s Contractors announced that it launched its Franchise Development Program after finalizing the Federal Disclosure Document required by the Federal Trade Commission. The Franchise Development Program aims to expand market share through franchise expansion. The Franchise Development Program is being lead by a team of highly successful experienced franchise development professionals which has successfully facilitated well over 7,000 franchise sales, and has close to 300 combined years of franchise industry experience.

For more information about Fireman’s Contractors franchise program, please visit:

Fireman’s Contractors Franchise Opportunities.

 
About Fireman’s Contractors:
Fireman’s Contractors, Inc. (FRCN) is a full-service commercial contractor offering business-to-business commercial franchises and professional services for commercial and government clients in the pavement maintenance and parking lot maintenance industry. Its services include Road Improvements, Pavement Maintenance, Seal Coating, Parking Lot Striping, Pavement Marking, Asphalt Maintenance and Repair, and ADA Compliance. Fireman’s Contractors is a proud member of International Franchise Association (IFA) and a partner in the VetFran initiative offering veterans financial incentives after they have returned home from serving our country. Fireman’s Franchise Development Program provides training and support, including its propriety business management software, Firebase™. Fireman’s Contractors brings a professional value system delivering outstanding results through honorable customer relationships and repeat business. Local firefighters are supported by a portion of profits which are donated to local Firefighter Associations. For more information about Fireman’s Contractors, visit: www.FiremansContractors.com

 
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the expectations or forecasts of future events, can be affected by inaccurate assumptions, and are subject to various business risks and known and unknown uncertainties, a number of which are beyond the control of management. Therefore, actual results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional information respecting the factors that could materially affect the Company and its operations are contained in its annual report on Form 10K and Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement.
For more information, contact:
Fireman’s Contractors, Inc.
2406 Gravel Road
Fort Worth, TX 76118
Phone: 800-475-1479

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Fireman’s Contractors, Inc. Announces Sale of First Franchise

Renee Gilmore, CEO of Fireman’s Contractors, stated, “We’re excited to announce this critical step in the implementation of our franchise development initiative. We believe that the sale of this first franchise will assist in the sale of other franchise territories in the coming months.”

A member of the International Franchise Association (IFA), Fireman’s is building its franchise development program, aimed to assist the company in expanding its market share. As a franchisor, the company will provide franchisees with training and support, including the proprietary Firebase^TM software platform, which is included along with other business tools and training for new franchisees of Fireman’s Contractors.

Fireman’s franchise development program is being led by a team of highly successful, experienced franchise development professionals who have previously facilitated the sales of more than 7,000 franchises.  Fireman’s Contractors is also a partner in the IFA’s VetFran initiative, which offers financial incentives to veterans returning home in honor of their service to our country. For more information about Fireman’s Contractors franchise program, please visit: Fireman’s Contractors Franchise Opportunities.

About VetFran:

The Veteran Transition Franchise Initiative (VetFran) is an International Franchise Association (IFA) program. VetFran was founded in 1991 in an effort to support veterans returning from war and help them transition into civilian economy. It includes more than 400 IFA franchisor member companies offering financial incentives, training and mentoring to veterans interested in small business ownership and/or a career path in franchising. Since the program’s inception, more than 2,100 veterans have become franchise business owners through VetFran.

About Fireman’s Contractors:

Fireman’s Contractors, Inc. (OTCBB: FRCN) is a full-service contractor providing professional services for commercial and government clients, offering Business to Business Franchise Opportunities. Its services include Road Improvements, Pavement Maintenance, Seal Coating, Parking Lot Striping, Pavement Marking, Asphalt Maintenance and Repair, and ADA Compliance.  Fireman’s Contractors has completed its FDD requirements with the Federal Trade Commission and has developed franchise territories across the U.S.  The company’s goal is to develop hundreds of new franchise locations in the next 24 to 48 months.  Fireman’s Contractors brings a professional value system delivering outstanding results through honorable customer relationships and repeat business. Local firefighters are supported by a portion of profits which are donated to local Firefighter Associations

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements are based largely on the expectations or forecasts of future events, can be affected by inaccurate assumptions, and are subject to various business risks and known and unknown uncertainties, a number of which are beyond the control of management. Therefore, actual results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in this press release. Additional information respecting the factors that could materially affect the Company and its operations are contained in its annual report on Form 10K and Form 10-Q as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement.

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LOCAL NEWS: $2.5Billion Road Construction Project Gaining Momentum

FORT WORTH, TEXAS

A significant road construction project in Tarrant County is approaching the 2-year mark. Designers broke ground around the North Tarrant Express in mid-2010. Once it’s complete, the NTE will run from Interstate-35W in Fort Worth to Industrial Boulevard in Euless. The $2.5 billion project will rebuild the present lanes of Interstate-820, Highway 121 and Highway 183, and add handled toll lanes.

“Probably over the following two months, this whole corridor is going to be being built,” stated Robert Hinkle, representative for that NTE. “So, which means there’s happening within the entire 13 . 5 miles.” By focusing on the whole project all at one time, rather than gradually, designers can complete the development much faster.

The NTE is anticipated to become open by June 2015. The job has already been in front of schedule, however the orange barrels and concrete obstacles will not be disappearing in the near future. “When you pull individuals concrete obstacles in, which you need to do to produce the development, the lanes remain. They’re just likely to look a great deal more compact,” Hinkle described. “So, for individuals workers’ safety but for the drivers’ safety, we would like folks to decelerate and give consideration.”

Across the stretch, cars, construction and congestion are commonplace. So, a minimum of for the following 3 years, controlling with the traffic trouble place is going to be tricky. “On a day, we have about 150,000 cars moving through this corridor, as well as we have about 1,000 employees on a day,” Hinkle stated. “So, put lower your Rim, put lower your sandwich, put lower your makeup, put lower anything you have with you – grip the wheel and drive.”

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Bloomberg Reports: Road-Work to Stop as Congress Disputes Funding Bill

Bloomberg Reports: Road-Work to Stop as Congress Disputes Funding Bill

By Jeff Plungis – Mar 26, 2012

Congress’s rhetoric ahead of the March 31 expiration of a law funding U.S. highway and transit projects resembles the dueling that led to last July’s impasse shutting down the Federal Aviation Administration for two weeks.

About 4,000 government workers were furloughed. The agency lost $468 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, when airlines for 16 days pocketed a ticket tax that would have been used for airport construction.

The consequences of a highway-program shutdown would start with construction workers being laid off after states stop getting U.S. reimbursements to pay them, said Pete Rahn, leader of HNTB Holdings Ltd.’s transportation practice in Kansas City, Missouri. As many as 1.87 million jobs may be at risk, according to a Senate fact sheet citing Transportation Department job- calculation models. The U.S. government couldn’t collect as much as $93 million a day in gasoline taxes, he said.

“This is by an order of magnitude bigger than the FAA bill,” said Joshua Schank, president and chief executive officer of the Eno Center for Transportation in Washington. “If it lasts any more than a few weeks, there would be serious damage.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, last week urged the House to take up the bill his chamber passed March 14. He wouldn’t discuss what would be the ninth extension of highway legislation that expired in 2009.

Representative Bill Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican rounding up votes on the other side of the Capitol, said that stance may change by March 30.

Vote Scheduled

The House will vote on a 90-day extension today after 6:30 p.m. in Washington, according to the chamber’s daily schedule. The bill will be taken up under rules requiring a two-thirds majority to pass, meaning the 242 Republicans will need about 48 Democrats to advance the legislation.

Representative Nick Rahall, the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s senior Democrat, urged a “no” vote in an e-mailed statement. House leaders should schedule a vote on the Senate bill, he said.

“Allowing Republicans another 12 weeks would do nothing but feed their dangerous addiction to serial extensions and damaging delays, which are causing uncertainty and chaos at the start of the construction season,” said Rahall, of West Virginia.

Insolvency Potential

Congress’s struggles to agree on a long-term bill have drawn out so long that the Highway Trust Fund, which pays for road and mass transit construction, is almost insolvent. Its highway account may be unable to meet its obligations as soon as October, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials said Jan. 31 in a report analyzing Congressional Budget Office data.

The fund’s finances have declined as cars have become more efficient and Americans drive less because of higher gasoline prices, according to the U.S. Transportation Department.

If a shutdown forces gas-tax collections to stop, “these funds would be gone forever,” Rahn said. “There would be no way to make it up.”

The Senate’s two-year, $109 billion transportation plan passed March 14 includes about $14 billion from other accounts and general taxpayer money to shore up the trust fund. The trust fund collected $36.9 billion from all sources in 2011, according to the CBO.

When House leaders tried to bring a different bill to the floor last month, majority Republicans were so divided over how to pay for projects and whether mass transit should keep getting gasoline-tax money that it didn’t progress to a vote.

Jobs at Stake

House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman John Mica, a Florida Republican, introduced a bill March 22 to extend current programs through June 30.

As with the FAA bill, a lapse in the government’s authority to collect gasoline taxes won’t necessarily lead to lower fuel prices for consumers, Schank said.

Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, held several news conferences last week calling for a vote on the approved bill she sponsored. Among the jobs at stake if highway funding lapses are 177,500 highway and transit positions in California, 120,300 in Texas and 113,300 in New York, according to fact sheet prepared by Senate Democrats.

The Senate bill may create another 1 million jobs by expanding private-sector financing for projects, according to the fact sheet.

House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohio Republican, backed off a pledge to act on the Senate bill if House members wouldn’t back Mica’s five-year, $260 billion plan. House Republicans want to bolster the Highway Trust Fund with revenue from opening up more federal land to oil and gas production, Boehner told reporters March 22.

‘Path to Bankruptcy’

“The problem with the Senate bill is it doesn’t address the issue of rising gas prices and energy,” Boehner said. “We believe if we are going to reauthorize the highway bill, American energy production ought to be a critical part of this.”

Boxer, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works, called a 90-day extension “a path to bankruptcy.” She wouldn’t say whether senators would support that plan.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, indicated that Democrats were ready for a fight.

“We want all members of the House to go on record — do they want to create jobs or do they want to destroy jobs?” Pelosi told reporters. “Republicans in the House have painted themselves into an extreme position.”

Union Pressure

The House plan would consolidate 130 U.S. highway programs into six, Mica said March 22 in remarks to the Ripon Society, a Republican policy group in Washington. It will speed up the process of approving construction projects and improve transportation options that will take traffic off the highways, he said.

“I don’t want to pass just a highway bill,” Mica said. The Senate, he said, “passed just a highway bill and that’s the wrong thing to do.”

Labor unions seeking to protect their members are trying to pressure House Republicans. After running radio ads in Boehner’s suburban Cincinnati district earlier in the month, the Laborers’ International Union of North America drove a 15-foot flatbed truck with a giant roll of duct tape to the city’s Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River.

Obsolete Bridges

The prop symbolized Congress’s short-term approach to fixing Ohio’s 6,400 structurally deficient or functionally obsolete bridges, the union, which represents 500,000 construction workers, said in a March 21 statement.

Short-term extensions don’t allow the kind of planning required for cities to plan construction projects, and Fresno, California, already has a backlog of projects that can’t be put out for bid because of the uncertainty, said Mayor Ashley Swearengin, a Republican.

“Any short-term extension would doom our chances of getting a long-term bill this year,” Swearengin told reporters March 23 on a U.S. Conference of Mayors conference call.

The Senate bill is S. 1813 and the House bills are H.R. 7 and H.R. 4239.

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Road closed, detour, striping crew ahead

Norman summers can get hectic for those of us who travel around the city every day. Mid-July to early August is generally a time when crews are repairing streets, re-striping and painting curbs yellow to prevent those illegal game-day parkers.

But it’s also a time when road construction hits a peak. It’s generally dry and fewer cars are on the road. Lindsey Street, from the tracks to Jenkins, should be completed in time for Oklahoma University classes to start back.

The railroad overpass at Robinson Street, predicted to be completed in December, may be done by February or March. The Rock Creek Road overpass should open late this month. Continue reading “Road closed, detour, striping crew ahead” »

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Road Projects Pickup Across the U.S.

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Relief after Roadwork Construction

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Annual summer ritual of seal-coating city streets will get under way

The annual summer ritual of seal-coating city streets will get under way in Brookings on Monday, July 18, according to the Brookings Street Department.

Weather permitting, streets and avenues to be sealed include the area from Eighth Street South to 20th Street South; and from Medary Avenue to 22nd Avenue.

Residents who live on streets scheduled for seal-coating should not park anything (vehicles, trailers, boats, RVs, etc.) on their street from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., until their street has been covered with rock.  Also, do not water lawns or drain sump pumps onto the streets during seal-coating. Streets need to be dry in order for the seal-coat to adhere, city officials report.  Motorists are encouraged to drive slowly and be cautious of the equipment, trucks and employees.

Bicyclists and motorcyclists should exercise extreme caution when using these streets. It would be best to select alternate routes during this time in order to avoid delays.
If all goes well, the project is expected to be completed by Friday, July 29.
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Seal Coating Really Help Streets with pothole prevention?

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — It’s is the time of year many of us are arriving home to see a sign reading, “LOOSE GRAVEL.” The summertime dump of rock on our residential and busy streets is an irritation to many, but what’s going on with all those rocks?

“There’s actually a lot of good happening here,” said Mike Kennedy, Director of Public Works for the city of Minneapolis.

The process is called chip seal-coating. It’s chips of aggregate that are forming a new surface for the road. Continue reading “Seal Coating Really Help Streets with pothole prevention?” »

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City Council approved street sealcoat 17.5 blocks project

The Fulda City Council met on Tuesday, July 5th with both Ron Kellen and Jan Wehking absent.

Doc Schwarz asked the city council for a handicap access to the gazebo at Memorial Beach. The council would like to see a cost estimate on the project before they would consider it.

Seal coating for 17.5 blocks was approved. 26,000 square yards at 1.28 for a total of $33,280. The city seal coats all the streets once in six years. The streets are the three blocks of Roy Avenue, two blocks on College Avenue, and three blocks on Delaware Avenue, one block each on Lafayette, St. Paul and Baltimore Avenues, the first block south of Front Street, Davis Street for two blocks from Lafayette to Baltimore, two blocks on the west end of Seventh Streetand the he alley around the Legion/Community Center and between the bank and the grocery store.
Brian Gass would like to eliminate the extra help for the spring and fall city clean-up. The city crew will try it this fall.

The purchase of a new loader was discussed but any decision was tabled for a few weeks.
Chuck Lursen brought up the properties that had weeds and grass that needed mowing. Photos of the properties were passed around. The police chief will be making phone calls to owners about the nuisance ordinance. Lursen said he has talked with local cleaning supply people who would like to see the city purchase from local vendors. Building permits were approved for Jerry Ehleringer for a deck replacement and Char Anderson for a new deck and sidewalk replacement. The next regular meeting will be Monday, August 1st at 7 p.m. Continue reading “City Council approved street sealcoat 17.5 blocks project” »

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