Fwd: emergency communication

[Chuck Mulholland]

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From: <Chris...@aol.com>
Date: Wed, May 22, 2013 at 9:44 PM
Subject: emergency communication
To: Bill...@msn.com, markw...@aol.com, cemulh...@gmail.com, Fr...@frankronni.com
Cc: edfr...@verizon.net, edf...@comcast.net, fran...@aol.com

What I wanted to say at the meeting the other night was that I listened to the tape of the Capital Budget hearing with the Finance and Administration Committee and learned  about a $3 million appropriation for farmland preservation--one of my favorite subjects.  Then Adam's article appeared in the newspaper and I learned that someone intends to cut  that out of the Budget, so the County will lose the State matching funds that will insure that New Castle County farms are preserved. 

I went to the Dept. of Ag website and studied the situation and learned to what extent Kent and Sussex County preservation have been subsidized by this county.  It's not fair, and from what I have known for years about the State program, it cannot be changed unless we enact our own program to use at least part of the real estate transfer taxes that are sent to Dover to the State program.  An ordinance to create a County program will be taken up next Tuesday.

     Can I get the attached article sent to the entire membership?  If there are members who are still as supportive of farmland preservation as they were a few years ago, we can help on this subject.  Who is in charge at this point.

     Chuck, I hope you are o.k.  We missed you the other night.

                         Christine

P.S.  Is tCbu...@nccde.org in our Directory a typographical error?  Should it be TC or just C?

 

Christine Whitehead
530-5249 cell