Sample Letter to Governor, Your State Senator

Sample Letter to Governor, your State Senator and Assembly Member

The Honorable Edmund G. Brown, Jr. Governor of California State Capitol Building Sacramento, CA 95814

(To look up your district’s Senator or Assembly Member, please visit the C.A.S.H. online legislative directory at http://www.cashnet.org/LegDirectory/index.esiml)

Dear Governor Brown:

The ______School District is ready to create new construction jobs if the Director of the Department of Finance will agree to allow the State Treasurer to sell already-voter approved school bonds at the April bond sale.

School construction is a proven effective economic stimulus and job creator for California. The ______School District has $______in already approved facility projects that have met California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) approval, Division of the State Architect (DSA) approval, and State Allocation Board (SAB) approval, and we have our local matching funds ready to apply to the project.

All we need now is the state match from the sale of state school bonds. Our project(s) total $______in state and local funding. These projects will create ____ new construction jobs.

California schools have $1.4 billion in school construction and modernization projects which have already completed the necessary environmental reviews and acquired all state and local approvals to begin construction. These projects are waiting for funding from the sale of already voter-approved state school construction bonds.

As a result of the October 2011 bond sale, the State Allocation Board (SAB) apportioned $924 million to fund 377 shovel-ready school projects in December 2011. The State Allocation Board’s unprecedented and successful Priorities in Funding Program ensures that school construction begins within 90 days of SAB project funding approval. No other industry has a better stimulus success record than school construction.

Please help our local community help California’s economy by having the Director of Finance direct the State Treasurer to sell school bonds.

Sincerely, cc: Cheryl MacKelvie, Coalition for Adequate School Housing (C.A.S.H.) [email protected]