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Save The Cow Palace Missive #5

More Cow Palace info from Kevin Patterson:
(please remember to contact Kevin with questions and suggestions. You can reach him at kevin@redbarnproductions.org)

The Cow Palace saga continues. Don't let up on the letters AND phone calls.

Emails only work for your individual State Representatives but send them too (from every email address in your household!)  If you have called, call again.  If you have written, be sure you have written/copied your letter to the Governator, Senator Yee, plus the other two authors of the bill, and of course, YOUR local Rep. AND the San Mateo Board of Supervisors (see below) Everything you need is at http://www.savethecowpalace.com

As soon as SB1527 gets assigned to a Committee, we will send you that contact info as well. We must keep the pressure up! The other shows are urging their fans and sub-groups to use the website too!  We are getting hundreds of hits per day!


Here are some of the very best ways you can help:

1) URGENT: The San Mateo Board of Supervisors are voting on a resolution to support SB1527 THIS Tuesday.  Write, email and call all 5 of their offices to let them know you DO NOT support SB1527 and you want them to table the resolution until a compromise plan can be achieved that will save the Cow Palace and still provide Daly City's need for retail in the vicinity. Try to find friends and relatives who live in San Mateo, if possible.
http://www.co.sanmateo.ca.us/smc/department/bos/home/0,2151,1864_3028,00.html

Come to the meeting if you want, but communication prior to the meeting is the key to effecting the outcome.

2) There are three more Daly City Information meetings. Try to make one:

March 8, 10 a.m.: Visitacion Valley Community Center, 66 Raymond Ave., San Francisco
March 8, 11 a.m.: Bayshore Community Center, 450 Martin St., Daly City
March 25, 7 p.m.: Saddleback Homeowners Clubhouse, 1800 Saddleback Drive, Daly City

Please help us carry signs, get people to sign petitions and appear in front of news cameras.  Come in costume if you like.  Anyone do Elvis?

Be prepared to fill out question cards. Your questions will be answered from the podium by the Daly City Manager or Senator Yee. The meeting is not a public forum to debate the issue.  It is Daly City's chance to answer questions and inform the public.  Be courteous.  Think win-win.  The locals who showed up at the last meeting wanted change.  They think that tearing down the Cow Palace will fix their blight. Don't try to tell them the Cow Palace brings in money to the area, they don't believe it does.  Talk compromise.  Selling off some of the Cow Palace property for a retail area can and should work. It could provide money to upgrade the Cow Palace AND space for needed retail.

Many thanks to the 25 who showed up last Thursday night at the Daly City meeting (on same-day notice no less!).


3) Please volunteer to staff the table at the flower show for a shift or two.  In fact, every show at the Cow Palace until the bill goes to a vote is important. Email: info@savethecowpalace.com with your availability between
Wednesday 3/13 and Sunday 3/17, Shifts are 10am to 12:30 and 12:30 - 3pm - (getting into the show, if you want to see it, will cost $20.00 or $13 after 3pm)
http://www.gardenshow.com/sf/theshow/index.asp


4) Sunday, March 9th, KRON Ch. 4's Henry Tenenbaum will be interviewing Kevin at the SF Flower Show (as they set it up).  We need a few folks in Dickensian attire to be there at 7:45 for an 8:15 AM live segment.  Please email Kevin via info@savethecowpalace.com if you can make it. Meet by the front door to the main arena.

5) Check the website for new articles and updates, AND encourage people to visit the site who are unaware of the impending doom of the Cow Palace. (print out flyers and keep them with you)

6) Once the Senate "Committee" has been chosen, we will all need to write each and every member. They are the ones that will have the most power to effect this bill.  You will receive a missive on this as soon as we know.

7) Print our the flyer from the website and distribute ANYWHERE.  Just download (pdf) and print.  It prints 2 flyers to a page, so make a cut and find people who share our desire to save the Cow Palace and hand them a flyer!



Yes we are of course looking for alternate locations - AGAIN - but the Cow Palace is really perfect for many reasons.  We CAN and we MUST save it. If anyone knows of a 100,000 square foot warehouse with a sprinkler system, maximum 18' high ceilings and 15 acres of parking, within 30 minutes of SF, let us know.

Thank you for your help!  We will keep you informed as things progress.


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