Hi everyone, this just came in my email...please consider taking the time to collect signatures!
Thanks, West Hartford RAC
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Note: Please forward the message below ASAP to as many WH friends as you know as Volunteers are desperately needed!
Dear Friends, As you may have heard, in a surprise "Special Session" last week on about 36 hours notice, theTown Council changed the Blue Back Square Master Agreement! These 32 pages of alterations removed critical safeguards that mean among other things:- Critical traffic plan safeguards contained in the Original Master Agreement have been removed.
- Our Town property can be transferred to the developer without the final dispositions of the appeals of certain Zoning, Inland & Wetlands and Town Council Decisions.
- More financial risk has been shifted to the citizens so this development can be rushed into place.
GOOD NEWS: A new petition drive has been started!! The petition requests the Town Council leave the safeguards in the "Master Agreement" as approved by the voters.
BAD NEWS: We only have 30 days from the time the change was passed to collect about 3,000 signatures (which was last Wednesday)!!
We really need your help collecting signatures for this petition. Please consider either.....
- Take a list of names of residents in your community who signed the petition last time that you could call or visit to get their signatures. (phone numbers and addresses are already included on the list. Also lists are already divided by community so you could be assured addresses near your home). This would be perfect if you could make some calls on week days or evenings and either ask them to stop by your place to sign the petition or schedule a time to stop by theirs or just urge them to attend the Save the Center petition signing at Town Hall on Tuesday April 26th from 5:30 to 8:30. You could also just visit a few addresses every evening. Of course there would be no pressure to get everyone on the list.
- Signing up for a 2 hour shift this weekend (or during the week if you can't on the weekend) to collect signatures at one of the local grocery stores (probably Stop and Shop on Farmington). (I did this during the last petition drive, and it wasn't too bad. There were a few unfriendly people, but only a few. Plus, it helps if you can find someone to volunteer with you for moral support)
If there is any way you can do either of these (or both!), please use the email address below.
If you are unable to volunteer, but would like to sign the petition, PLEASE e-mail or call the number below to say when a convenient time for someone to stop by your home to collect your signature, or you could stop by Save the Center's Tuesday April 26th Petition Signing meeting at Town Hall from 5:30 - 8:30 or stop by Stop and Shop on Farmington sometime this weekend as we are hoping to have this staffed with volunteers collecting signatures for most of Saturday and Sunday. PLEASE FORWARD this e-mail to others in town who may want to help with the effort. e-mail contact: westhartfordvolunteers@yahoo.com
Thanks!
