The County of Sacramento has released their proposed budget, and it proposes to totally eliminate funding for the 20 County Classes to participate our program for 4th and 5th graders, Life in Our Watershed: Investigating Vernal Pools.
WE NEED YOU TO SEND AN EMAIL Care of the County Board of Supervisors fighting for Splash!
BoardClerk@saccounty.gov
Splash is financed by five municipal stormwater departments and private donations from hundreds of community supporters. For the past 25 years, the County of Sacramento has contracted with Splash to deliver the Investigating Vernal Pools program to 20 classes at schools located in the unincorporated County. This $75,000 contract is 23% of Splash’s annual budget for the Vernal Pools program. This funding pays for 600+ students to attend our half-day field trip at Mather, at no cost to the parents or their school.
Once we are out of the County’s Budget it will be nearly impossible for us to get back in! Not to mention it will set a precedent for other agencies to balance their budget on our backs!
The County is in a budget crunch yet is it is proposing to grow the budget with over $20M in new positions and projects. Please don’t allow them to cut our program! This is a very small amount of money in the grand scheme of the County’s total budget.
The teachers are relying on Splash to help them teach science this school year. Over 3,150 total students are looking forward to a vernal pool field trip this spring, and over 600 of them will be affected by this loss of funding. These kids and teachers want their elected representatives to know how much Splash means to the people of Sacramento.
Please contact your Supervisor today. It takes less than 5 minutes. (or contact them all!)
Board of Supervisors, District 1, Phil Serna
Email: SupervisorSerna@saccounty.gov
Board of Supervisors, District 2, Patrick Kennedy
E-mail: SupervisorKennedy@saccounty.gov
Board of Supervisors, District 3, Rich Desmond
E-mail: richdesmond@saccounty.gov
Board of Supervisors, District 4, Rosario Rodriguez
E-mail: rodriguezros@saccounty.gov
Board of Supervisors, District 5, Pat Hume
E-mail: PatHume@saccounty.gov
How you can help:
Join us in filling the Board Chambers (You don’t HAVE to Speak, but your actions of being there will speak for you!) on June 4th at 9:30am
County of Sacramento Board Chambers, 700 H Street, Sacramento, CA 95814
OR
- Send a note to your supervisor or all of them: BoardClerk@saccounty.gov (State that you want this read into the record)
- Complete this form for us (Make this a link) https://forms.gle/3qaEioWaqsuDY2A69 so that we can provide the Supervisors and our Board with the people who care the most about saving these classes.
- Ask family members and friends to advocate using the same website: https://forms.gle/3qaEioWaqsuDY2A69
Thank you for speaking up. We need you now!