[copy of email sent to 433 Amherst community members]
OK, folks, attached.pdf hot of the press from the schools (coming home in backpacks on Thursday, I think).
You can also provide a link to the Town website front page, middle:
http://www.amherstma.gov/
Get it out there, please. We need lots of people *throughout Amherst* to understand what's going on if we're going to do anything other than rearrange deck chairs while we decimate the elementary schools in FY09, and we need a *plan* that gets us on track to survive (and thrive!) without some magical infusion of funds from the state and federal governments, because they are *not* coming to save us, no matter how hard we lobby them! (although yes, you still have to do the lobbying:-)
Talk to a BCG member if you have any questions; this is their show:
http://www.amherstma.gov/departments/Budget_Coordinating_Group/default.asp?id=77&mypage=77&myName=Budget+Coordinating+Group
Thanks so much for helping make our community what we all want it to be!
Take care,
Alisa
