URGENT! We Need to Get Behind These GEA Bills! Send a Message to Your Legislators NOW!
(RESENDING TO ADD SENATE BILL NO. S.2743 IN FOURTH PARAGRAPH)
URGENT!!!! ASSEMBLY & SENATE BILLS INTRODUCED THAT WOULD COMPEL STATE TO FULLY END GEA THIS YEAR!
WE NEED YOU TO STRONGLY URGE YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS IN BOTH HOUSES TO SIGN ON AS A BILL CO-SPONSOR & JOIN THIS BI-PARTISAN EFFORT TO GET IT PASSED!!!
SEND A MESSAGE TO THEM NOW!!! SEE INFO BELOW
To: SSFC Membership
From: Dr. Rick Timbs, Executive Director
Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner (D-Round Lake) and Senator Patrick Gallivan (R-Elma) have introduced bi-partisan legislation (Assembly Bill A.2271 & Senate Bill S.2743) that would completely put an immediate end to the Gap Elimination Adjustment (GEA) in 2015-16 and thereafter and provide school districts with the full amount of state aid they are legally allowed receive.
This is BIG news because – as you know all too well – because the GEA has unjustly deducted over $9 billion in badly needed state aid since 2010-11. If these bills become law the $1 billion remaining in GEA that would have been withheld will be fully restored to your state aid this year.
A big help in getting this vital legislation passed will be to get as many members of both the Assembly and the Senate – OF BOTH PARTIES – to sign on as co-sponsors of the bill.
To do this WE NEED YOU TO SEND A LETTER OR EMAIL OR CALL (…or all three!) YOUR ASSEMBLY MEMBER AND SENATOR AND URGE THEM TO BECOME A CO-SPONSOR OF ASSEMBLY BILL 2271 or SENATE BILL S.2743 AND TO WORK FOR THE BILL’S PASSAGE IN THEIR HOUSE.
Tell your legislators the stories of how GEA has hurt your children and schools through the elimination of jobs and programs Remember, if our legislators hear from MANY OF US the chances are better they will pay attention to this issue and do something about it.
- CLICK HERE FOR A SAMPLE LETTER YOU CAN SEND OR USE TO CRAFT A MESSAGE OF YOUR OWN
- CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF ASSEMBLY MEMBERS OR TO FIND OUT WHO REPRESENTS YOU
- CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF SENATE MEMBERS OR TO FIND OUT WHO REPRESENTS YOU Please share this message with everyone you know who has a stake or an interest in Your schools – school board members, administrators, faculty, parents, community members, etc. We thank Assembly Member Woerner and Senator Gallivan for the leadership they have shown in this matter that is so vital to us all.
IF WE DO NOTHING…THEN NOTHING WILL HAPPEN!
Statewide School Finance Consortium
6390 Fly Road
East Syracuse, New York 13057