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Hi there Zoo friends,
The Salisbury Zoo needs your help. Two City Council members (Terry Cohen & Debbie Campbell) are proposing significant budget cuts to your zoo. These cuts would be detrimental to Zoo operations and would cause 5 (out of only 14) zoo staff members to lose their jobs. The Zoo Education Department and the Animal Department would effectively be cut 50% - and there is no way the Zoo could continue to serve the community in the wonderful way that it has for the last 53 years. Please make your voices heard! We need your support! The information below, from Zoo Director Jim Rapp, gives more detail about the proposed cuts and what you can do to help. Please share this information with everyone you know. It would be great for all of our partners - young and old - to make a statement, so please share this with colleagues, students, children, friends, family...
We know you love the zoo - it's free and accessible to everyone in our community, and it's top-notch - accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums... and we want to keep it that way - it's one of the things that makes our town great. Please contact City Council members (contact information is below), send letters to the editor (eamil to sparker@dmg.gannett.com), send comments to the Grapevine'(telephone 410.749.7171 x 333 or fax 410.749.7290) - get the word out however you can...
Thank you for your support!
Carrie Samis Education Curator zooed@salisburyzoo.org 410.546.3440 x 5 ------------------------------------------------------ In today's Daily Times, there is an article about Debbie Campbell and Terry Cohen's proposed $3 million cuts to the City budget. Yesterday, Campbell & Cohen released details of their proposed $1.4 million in cuts from the City's general fund. They have proposed $326,119 in cuts to the zoo's operational budget.
These cuts represent:
FIVE ZOO POSITIONS: Zoo Curator (Gary Muir) Zoo Eduication Curator (Carrie Samis) Three Zookeeper positions (3 of 6 staff, could be Ann Konopik, Dave Williamson, Dan Ciancitto, Joy Gibson-McIntire, Christianna Fry or Debbie Graham) .and $152,388 in cuts to maintenance accounts, training, increases & benefits, etc.
This is completely unacceptable. These cuts will ruin the Zoo that you and I have built together with our investment of time, money, and love for our animals and our community.
I have spoken with Zoo Commission Chairman Ron Alessi, and we have agreed to the following. Please do everything you can to help:
1. Contact Debbie Cambell and Terry Cohen and let them know how you feel about your Zoo. It doesn't matter if you are a City taxpayer or not - you are an investor in this Zoo, and you want to see your investment supported by the owners, the City of Salisbury. You all work very hard to bring additional resources to the Zoo to match the City's support. Campbell & Cohen want to eliminate the Education Curator position - that is position is funded through a grant from the MD State Department of Education, two endowments at the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, special events, and program fees. This Zoo is the heart & soul of this City. Campbell & Cohen use the term "non- essential" to refer to this Zoo: how does that make you feel?
Please forward this e-mail to your friends, neighbors, and family. Contact Campbell & Cohen at:
Terry E. Cohen Councilwoman 536 Druid Hill Avenue Salisbury, MD 21801 Home: 410-845-0296 Email: Terry@TerryCohen.com
2. We will be issuing a press release today to explain the impact of these lethal cuts in funding to the Zoo. I will forward this press release to you as soon as it is ready for distribution.
3. Make your voice heard at the next City Council budget meeting on Tuesday, May 29 in the City Council Chambers of the City/County Government Building. We need a strong presence - bring your friends, your children, and your passion for your Zoo.
Attached are the Daily Times article, and Campbell & Cohen's proposed cuts.
Jim Rapp, Director Salisbury Zoo P.O. Box 2979 Salisbury, MD 21802 (410) 548-3116 ext. 6 jrapp@ci.salisbury.md.us
I know that you do not like to get invovled in struggle and that you are a peace loving, promoting individual, but the Zoo could use your help. It seems that you have wide and vast connections through friends. We need to get the word out about how sorely the Salisbury Zoo would be missed if funding is cut. This is our own little oasis in the City that Salisbury is become. It is the one place we can go to get away from it all and think about how much bigger the world really is. Please help the concerned citizens of Salisbury who love their little zoo and treasure it. Send letters to the paper, e-mail or County Council members, e-mail our mayor, get the word out that we love our zoo and the people that work for it. Thank you for any help anyone can give, it will make a difference.
Tell you what Anon, I would gladly aid the zoo in any way I can for I too do enjoy it and it's very existence. Compared to many ways of spending money, it offers nothing but positive potentiality for the Salisbarian culture and her visitors.
Please email me further correspondence on this topic. Your anonymity will be forever honored by ¿Yh8?
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Copied from another website. Please read and help in the fight.
Hi there Zoo friends,
The Salisbury Zoo needs your help. Two City Council members (Terry Cohen &
Debbie Campbell) are proposing significant budget cuts to your zoo. These cuts
would be detrimental to Zoo operations and would cause 5 (out of only 14) zoo
staff members to lose their jobs. The Zoo Education Department and the Animal
Department would effectively be cut 50% - and there is no way the Zoo could
continue to serve the community in the wonderful way that it has for the last
53 years. Please make your voices heard! We need your support! The information
below, from Zoo Director Jim Rapp, gives more detail about the proposed cuts
and what you can do to help. Please share this information with everyone you
know. It would be great for all of our partners - young and old - to make a
statement, so please share this with colleagues, students, children, friends,
family...
We know you love the zoo - it's free and accessible to everyone in our
community, and it's top-notch - accredited by the Association of Zoos and
Aquariums... and we want to keep it that way - it's one of the things that
makes our town great. Please contact City Council members (contact information
is below), send letters to the editor (eamil to sparker@dmg.gannett.com), send
comments to the Grapevine'(telephone 410.749.7171 x 333 or fax 410.749.7290) -
get the word out however you can...
Thank you for your support!
Carrie Samis
Education Curator
zooed@salisburyzoo.org
410.546.3440 x 5
------------------------------------------------------
In today's Daily Times, there is an article about Debbie Campbell and Terry
Cohen's proposed $3 million cuts to the City budget. Yesterday, Campbell &
Cohen released details of their proposed $1.4 million in cuts from the City's
general fund. They have proposed $326,119 in cuts to the zoo's operational
budget.
These cuts represent:
FIVE ZOO POSITIONS:
Zoo Curator (Gary Muir)
Zoo Eduication Curator (Carrie Samis)
Three Zookeeper positions (3 of 6 staff, could be Ann Konopik, Dave
Williamson, Dan Ciancitto, Joy Gibson-McIntire, Christianna Fry or Debbie
Graham)
.and $152,388 in cuts to maintenance accounts, training, increases &
benefits, etc.
This is completely unacceptable. These cuts will ruin the Zoo that you and I
have built together with our investment of time, money, and love for our
animals and our community.
I have spoken with Zoo Commission Chairman Ron Alessi, and we have agreed to
the following. Please do everything you can to help:
1. Contact Debbie Cambell and Terry Cohen and let them know how you feel about
your Zoo. It doesn't matter if you are a City taxpayer or not - you are an
investor in this Zoo, and you want to see your investment supported by the
owners, the City of Salisbury. You all work very hard to bring additional
resources to the Zoo to match the City's support. Campbell & Cohen want to
eliminate the Education Curator position - that is position is funded through
a grant from the MD State Department of Education, two endowments at the
Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, special events, and program fees.
This Zoo is the heart & soul of this City. Campbell & Cohen use the term "non-
essential" to refer to this Zoo: how does that make you feel?
Please forward this e-mail to your friends, neighbors, and family. Contact
Campbell & Cohen at:
Deborah S. Campbell
Councilwoman
809 Camden Ave
Salisbury, MD 21801
Home: 410-860-0893
Email: debbiescampbell@comcast.net
Terry E. Cohen
Councilwoman
536 Druid Hill Avenue
Salisbury, MD 21801
Home: 410-845-0296
Email: Terry@TerryCohen.com
2. We will be issuing a press release today to explain the impact of these
lethal cuts in funding to the Zoo. I will forward this press release to you as
soon as it is ready for distribution.
3. Make your voice heard at the next City Council budget meeting on Tuesday,
May 29 in the City Council Chambers of the City/County Government Building. We
need a strong presence - bring your friends, your children, and your passion
for your Zoo.
Attached are the Daily Times article, and Campbell & Cohen's proposed cuts.
Jim Rapp, Director
Salisbury Zoo
P.O. Box 2979
Salisbury, MD 21802
(410) 548-3116 ext. 6
jrapp@ci.salisbury.md.us
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zoo problems???? we have a guy here in Rotterdam who can help. Ask for Bokito :P
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I know that you do not like to get invovled in struggle and that you are a peace loving, promoting individual, but the Zoo could use your help. It seems that you have wide and vast connections through friends. We need to get the word out about how sorely the Salisbury Zoo would be missed if funding is cut. This is our own little oasis in the City that Salisbury is become. It is the one place we can go to get away from it all and think about how much bigger the world really is. Please help the concerned citizens of Salisbury who love their little zoo and treasure it. Send letters to the paper, e-mail or County Council members, e-mail our mayor, get the word out that we love our zoo and the people that work for it. Thank you for any help anyone can give, it will make a difference.
Tell you what Anon, I would gladly aid the zoo in any way I can for I too do enjoy it and it's very existence. Compared to many ways of spending money, it offers nothing but positive potentiality for the Salisbarian culture and her visitors.
Please email me further correspondence on this topic. Your anonymity will be forever honored by ¿Yh8?
The message of Yhate is not to be affiliated with any political agenda except to side against all Hate, be it directed at elements of society or at ones own being.
My email addy is:
yh8@mac.com
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