YOUR ACTION needed
NOW !
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Sample Letter to Legislators (Word document)
The California Legislature will be holding committee
meetings beginning Monday, March 24, 2008 to discuss the state
budget. WE
MUST protect what has been gained for physical education,
specifically the Physical Education Teacher Incentive Program (PETIP)
Grant.
Please take ACTION today !
There are three important things to
do!
1. Please contact the members
of these committees asking for support in continuing the PETIP
funding in the 2008-09 budget and oppose any flexibility in categorical
funding.
Members of the Senate Budget & Fiscal Review Subcommittee
# 4:
Mike Machado (D-Linden), Chair); Robert Dutton (R-Inland Empire);
Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego).
Members of the Assembly Budget Subcommittee # 4:
Juan Arambula (D-Fresno),Chair; Paul Cook (R-Yucaipa); Assembly
Member Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine); Mary Hayashi (D-Hayward);
Gene Mullin (D-South San Francisco); Sandre Swanson (D-Oakland);
John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), Alternate; Roger Niello (R-Sacramento).
2. Contact
your State Senator and Assembly Member asking for support in
continuing the PETIP funding in the 2008-09 budget and oppose
any flexibility in categorical funding.
Arts, Music, and Physical Education Block Grants
($500 million) are Categorical funds. If districts
have not yet spent their portion of the $500 Million, they
would be able to divert 1/2 of that money away from Physical
Education and the Arts, to General Fund use. The
same is true for the funds in the PETIP Grant.
To find contact information for your legislators,
go to
http://www.legislature.ca.gov/legislators_and_districts/districts/districts.html
3. Ask your friends, colleagues,
neighbors, and family members to complete steps one and two above.
 To assist you and expedite your work, we have
provided a sample
letter for your use.
Please act IMMEDIATELY!
We need thousands of responses to arrive in Sacramento
ASAP.
Please email us so we know how many are responding
membership@cahperd.org and lynch@pdqnet.com
Or, mail copies of your letters to:
CAHPERD, 1501 El Camino Ave, Suite 3 Sacramento,
CA 95815 |
