Sample Letter to the Editor to local papers

thanking legislators for co-sponsoring

An Act to Sustain Community Preservation

March 2009

Please customize this letter for your community and send it to your local papers. Feel free to contact the Coalition at 617-367-8998 for assistance or with any questions.

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To the Editor:

I would like to recognize (LEGISLATOR), who recently co-sponsored An Act to Sustain Community Preservation. This legislation stabilizes the Community Preservation Act Trust Fund, which has distributed (FILL IN AMOUNT FROM CHART BELOW) to our town since we adopted the CPA. The CPA allows communities like ours to preserve open space, rehabilitate historic resources, and support community housing. Because of (LEGISLATOR’S) support, (TOWN) will be able to do more important projects like (EXAMPLE OF LOCAL PROJECT). The CPA preserves the quality of life in (TOWN), and we appreciate (LEGISLATOR’S NAME) efforts to keep the Act strong.

Sincerely,

NAME

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City/Town Name	Total Amount Received from statewide CPA Trust Fund to date
Acton	$3,391,787
Acushnet	$474,845
Agawam	$1,950,778
Amherst	$1,271,202
Aquinnah	$342,185
Ashland	$3,356,533
Ayer	$934,880
Barnstable	$8,863,848
Bedford	$6,119,589
Belchertown	$419,219
Bourne	$3,227,301
Boxford	$2,919,197
Braintree	$2,502,700
Brewster	$2,279,697
Bridgewater	$1,015,988
Cambridge	$38,275,770
Carlisle	$1,817,038
Carver	$647,619
Chatham	$3,131,748
Chelmsford	$1,707,801
Chilmark	$921,590
Cohasset	$1,827,352
Concord	$2,613,044
Conway	$165,609
Dartmouth	$2,176,884
Deerfield	$152,880
Dennis	$3,041,031
Dracut	$3,530,706
Dunstable	$352,421
Duxbury	$6,595,539
East Longmeadow	$308,682
Eastham	$1,568,288
Easthampton	$1,278,877
Easton	$4,250,871
Edgartown	$1,398,022
Essex	$23,549
Fairhaven	$704,102
Falmouth	$6,908,344
Georgetown	$1,566,178
Goshen	$46,893
Grafton	$1,126,823
Groton	$1,403,431
Groveland	$780,216
Hadley	$663,913
Hamilton	$812,112
Hampden	$247,892
Hanover	$1,748,675
Harvard	$863,405
Harwich	$3,278,050
Hatfield	$102,586
Hingham	$3,562,553
Holliston	$1,883,060
Hopkinton	$3,544,671
Hubbardston	$74,345
Hudson	$208,351
Kingston	$1,304,418
Lenox	$231,513
Leverett	$356,391
Lexington	$4,484,070
Lincoln	$2,324,036
Littleton	$79,393
Longmeadow	$410,820
Manchester	$183,662
Marion	$575,086
Marshfield	$5,056,042
Mashpee	$3,338,580
Mattapoisett	$83,616
Maynard	$274,490
Medway	$3,017,692
Mendon	$907,467
Middleton	$448,226
Millis	$68,211
Monson	$153,056
Nahant	$580,954
Nantucket	$7,926,517
Needham	$3,445,395
Newburyport	$2,323,364
Newton	$12,522,203
Norfolk	$2,404,202
North Andover	$6,978,999
Northampton	$1,302,446
Northborough	$931,270
Norwell	$3,448,706
Oak Bluffs	$1,105,061
Orleans	$1,815,772
Peabody	$3,375,385
Pembroke	$141,606
Phillipston	$37,823
Plymouth	$6,587,517
Provincetown	$1,223,079
Quincy	$1,884,176
Randolph	$1,375,020
Rockport	$1,857,058
Rowley	$1,690,685
Sandwich	$4,224,185
Scituate	$4,353,334
Sharon	$889,537
Southampton	$688,392
Southborough	$988,313
Southwick	$921,698
Stockbridge	$614,040
Stow	$2,270,380
Sturbridge	$1,787,537
Sudbury	$6,749,903
Templeton	$118,074
Tewksbury	$898,943
Tisbury	$922,844
Truro	$1,073,864
Tyngsborough	$2,215,311
Upton	$1,169,693
Waltham	$5,015,114
Wareham	$2,610,862
Wayland	$3,190,105
Wellesley	$3,520,242
Wellfleet	$1,242,303
Wenham	$726,023
West Boylston	$107,863
West Newbury	$429,682
West Tisbury	$849,254
Westfield	$1,268,921
Westford	$7,037,016
Weston	$8,083,479
Westport	$1,797,864
Weymouth	$1,307,031
Wilbraham	$831,929
Williamstown	$840,595
Yarmouth	$4,209,390