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URGENT ! Your Help Is Needed |
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URGENT !
Your help is needed
A call for Action from NYSSA and your new President Mike Fischer:
Please Forward this to Your Members You already are painfully aware that the Budget Director has swept $1,000,000.00 from the Snowmobile Trail fund. Through our lobbyists in Albany, we were able to find out what had happened. On March 7th, acting in accordance with Section 15 of Part T of Chapter 57 of the Laws of 2007, the Director of the Budget directed the State Comptroller's office to transfer $100 million in available fund balances in Miscellaneous Special Revenue accounts to the state's General Fund.
The decision to transfer these funds was based on the state's worsening financial condition, the pending Executive Budget (then under review by the Legislature), and an analysis of the projected cash flows for each account. Over 50 different Special Revenue accounts were affected, across > many different agencies and programs. As part of this transfer of these funds, $1 million was transferred from the Snowmobile Trail Development and Management Account (339-41). While Parks strongly recommended to the Division of the Budget that this action not be taken, this transfer was made pursuant to the law and within the authority of the state Budget Director.
As President of NYSSA, I have sent a letter to the Governor strongly opposing this sweep of the $1 million from the trail fund and asked him to restore these funds. I also have already called upon all our club presidents and asked them to send letters to their respective Senators and Assemblymen.
We at NYSSA have been working with our lobbyists to take whatever action necessary to oppose this unwarranted sweep of our money from the trail fund and to reach out to the Legislature and ask for their help to correct this intolerable situation.
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Penn Mountain Snow Riders "Mega Bucks" Raffle |
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With this seasons past expenses and the need for new tracks on our
Remsen Piston Bully, I've
gotten a raffle together. 1,000 Tickets @ $20
a piece. Cash prizes $5,000, $1,000, $500, $100.
If you ride the Remsen
side of the house, you know how important this raffle is to the
Hudon
Gang and every other Penn Mountain member. We need to sell every one of
these tickets
by November 25, 2008. If you want to purchase any of
these in quantity, please contact me.
Tickets will be available at some
of our business sponsors or from your club reps. I've already
gotten a
great response and I'll still need your help in moving these quickly.
We need to get
this groomer back together ASAP! This money will help
offset the costs of track purchases and
parts to rebuild the Piston
Bully. We've estimated that we will be spending at least $25,000 to
get
this great running machine back in action. Please help us do this.
Email me
This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it
or call me
845-430-2862. Thank You, Mike Cook and every other
concerned Penn Mountain rider.
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NEW YORK STATE FUEL TAX REFUND |
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| Here's another great way to help your club. Save your fuel receipts from your gasoline purchases for your snowmobiles and document them on these handy forms and send them into us. At the end of the season we will ask the Department of Taxation for a refund of the road tax and use these funds to help our club. No need to worry about buying fuel from out of town or buying fuel at participating gas stations, just use the convenient form. Start helping us now! Click on the following to download form-fueltaxrefund-1 |
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Next Membership meeting will be @ 7:30pm 27 May 2008 Holland Patent Legion
Board Meeting before member meeting @ 6:30pm.
Check out the website calendar for future meeting dates and locations.
Keep checking the Homepage and Forum for up to date info and click Newsletter tab for all Newsletters. Think Snow!
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