Friends,
With only 25 days left in the NYS budget process, we must intensify our efforts to make our elected officials understand the urgent need to include the 8.5% Human Services cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in the final budget.
Our collective groups need to generate 1,000 calls over the next 24 hours to the
Leaders of the Assembly and Senate!
To get there, we need you, your friends, family, colleagues
and others you know to make these calls!
Who to call?
Call Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie at 518-455-3791
Call Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins at 518-455-2585
What to say?
Once transferred, introduce yourself and state that you are a registered voter from (your locality) calling to urge the Legislature’s full support for an 8.5% human services COLA including the Children’s Health Home Care Management program.
Thus far, we have participated in rallies and meetings at the Capitol with our representatives, worked with advocacy groups from throughout the sector and throughout the state to raise our voices as one, held call-in and write-in campaigns, and spoken loudly and forcefully on public and social media to build support for our cause.
And now we have partnered with a group of nearly 30 organizations to place a billboard along I-787 in Albany near the Capitol demanding support for the 8.5% COLA. From now through the end of budget season, politicians (and just as importantly the staff who support them) will see this on their daily commute:
We cannot and will not stop: this is ‘an all hands on deck alert” to take the next step to be heard!
Please make those two calls in the next 24 hours.
WE MUST SAVE OUR SERVICES AND OUR STAFF!
THANK YOU!