Please contact your state senator today to let him or her know you value our state parks and want to make sure they are adequately funded. See sample email below.
The Senate Ways and Means has just released its version of the state budget. The budget is $2.7 million less than the Healey-Driscoll Administration proposed budget.
Contact your state senator today and ask him or her to sign on as co-sponsors for amendment 37 and 76 and to support them on the Senate floor.
These amendments, filed by Sen. Becca Rausch and Sen. Mike Rush, with co-filers, Sen. Jamie Eldridge and Sen. Bruce Tarr, would increase funding for the Department of Conservation and Recreation operations by $2.7 million, so that it is the same level as the line item in the budget proposed by the Healey-Driscoll Administration.
Senator Walter Timilty, who represents much of the Blue Hills, has already co-sponsored both amendments. If you live in the districts of Sen. Becca Rausch and Sen. Mike Rush, Sen. Jamie Eldridge, Sen. Bruce Tarr or Senator Walter Timilty, please thank them for their leadership.
Sample Email
Dear Senator xx,
Please co-sponsor budget Amendments 37 and 76. These amendments would provide much-needed funding for our state parks, like the Blue Hills Reservation.
The Senate Ways and Means is proposing a budget that includes funding for the Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) Parks and Recreation Operations Account (2810-0100) that is $2.7 million less than the Healey-Driscoll Administrations budget.
Sen Becca Rausch and Sen. Mike Rush have offered Amendment 37 and 76, respectively, to support our state parks and restore the Healey-Driscoll Administration’s support for the DCR.
I’m asking you to co-sponsor Amendments 37 and 76 and support them on the Senate floor.
Thank you for your support of our park. While more people are visiting state parks like the Blue Hills, funding to support the park system has been on the decline. A recent report found that Massachusetts ranks last in the nation for per capita spending on state and municipal parks.
I respectfully request that you co-sponsor Amendments 37 and 76 and support it on the Senate floor.
Thank you for your time and attention to this important matter.
Sincerely,
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Address
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Thanks to Massachusetts Conservation Voters for working with the Friends to support our state parks.
Finally we can start spending our time on issues involving the Blue Hills and advocating for issues involving the Blue Hills!! If Quincy Citizens blah blah group that wants only to destroy Granite Links stopped wasting our time with non sense, maybe we could focus on more important things such as the large brush fires that are getting closer to natural gas lines. Natural gas lines blowing up Quincy and Milton seems more terrifying to me then orange water from naturally occurring iron which anyone would know could have been seen anywhere on the quarries foot path before someone set it on fire again.
Paris has a park on just about every street, no matter how small. In this high charged world we live in these days, having access to green space, trails and some water is absolutely imperative for the mental health of all of us. Buildings, asphalt, and concrete may be necessary, but supporting our natural resources especially in and around cities can possibly help those who are highly stressed to de-stress. Please make it possible to keep these MA state gems around Boston there and healthy for all to visit. Please support Amendments 37 and 76. I have personally worked on maintaining beaches and parks around Boston and the suburbs via the NEAq volunteer program. It is one of the most rewarding activities I have ever done.
Thank you for your passionate support of our parks!
Dear Sen. Rush,
Please co-sponsor Amendments 34 and 76 if you have yet to do so.
Thank you.
Thanks for writing your senator!
Please cosponsor budget amendments 37 and 76.