Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 14:10:44 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Legacy Open Space MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Here's a heads up from Bob DeGroot of MAGIC. Let's keep those cards and letters pouring in. Paul O'Brien Rockville, MD pobrien776@aol.com Neal Fitzpatrick, of Audubon Naturalist Society, spoke to a County Council Staffer that said "only 12 letters have been received from the public" supporting full funding ($100 million) for Legacy Open Space. I don't understand the "politics" of how the Council makes decisions, but from the letters I received from Subin and other Council Members on my request to fully fund Legacy Open Space, everyone seems to love Legacy Open Space, BUT it is heading for some kind of reconciliation process in May that determines level of funding. The Council keeps some sort of file on public input on projects. So, we need more letters to the file as Legacy Open Space's funding level is determined vis-a-vis other worthy projects. Please send a letter to Subin requesting full ($100 million) funding for Legacy Open Space and request that he share your letter with the other Council Members. Also, it would be good to send a copy to your Council Person. Even Howie Dennis supports Legacy Open Space. If you need some inspiration, I will E-mail you a copy of the letter that I sent. Write to Subin at: Honorable Michael Subin, Chair Montgomery County Council 100 Maryland Ave. Rockville, MD 20850 e-mail: michael.subin@co.mo.md.us ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================