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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:23.25pt"><strong><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">It’s Time to Let Your Legislators Know that</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">MAIN STREET MATTERS!</span></strong></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;background:white">Dear Oregon Main Street Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;background:white">Many thanks to those of you who have endorsed the
</span><strong><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;color:#C00000;background:white;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://restoreoregon.org/rehab-tax-incentive/"><b><span style="color:#C00000">Revitalize Main Street Act</span></b></a></span></u></strong><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;background:white">
. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif"> As you may know, our bill was introduced by the Senate Finance Committee and will come up for a hearing in early March. Now our goal is for every committee member to know about
our bill, to have heard from numerous constituents about the impact it will have, and to vote
<strong><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">YES</span></strong> to forward it out of committee.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">THIS IS WHERE YOU COME IN! Right now, this week, contact your state Senator and Representative and ask them to support SB 565, the Revitalize Main Street Act. </span></strong><br>
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WE’VE MADE IT EASY. Click on this <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/75985c3403/b13a66874a/b8501cada4">
<strong><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;color:#12417A">legislative locator link</span></strong></a> to find your state Senator and Representative, then cut & paste (with a dash of personalization) the attached letter template into an email.
It takes just a couple of minutes and you’re done! Its particularly important that those of you in districts belonging to members of the Senate Finance Committee (Hass, Baertschiger, Boquist, Edwards, and Riley) get your emails out pronto. Those of you who
are NOT in one of these districts, please CC your email to Senator Hass who is the committee chair (<a href="mailto:Sen.MarkHass@state.or.us">Sen.MarkHass@state.or.us</a>).
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">Finally, if you would be willing to come to Salem to testify at the Senate Committee hearing in March (exact date TBD), please
let me know. We’ll need to fill the room to impress upon the legislators that it’s time to invest in Main Street because MAIN STREET MATTERS. Your active advocacy will make all the difference.
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">The Revitalize Main Street Act</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">creates a Historic Rehabilitation Fund to provide
<strong><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">a 25% rebate for the rehabilitation of historic commercial buildings</span></strong> – stores, hotels, theaters, apartments, factories, mills, etc. The rebate would help offset the high cost of restoration,
seismic retrofitting, and code compliance, <strong><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif">bringing jobs and economic vitality back to our downtowns</span></strong>. <br>
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For more inspiration, check out our short <b><span style="color:#C00000"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQON1QoiAsM"><span style="color:#C00000">VIDEO</span></a></span></b> and our blog post
<strong><u><span style="font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;color:#C00000;font-weight:normal"><a href="http://restoreoregon.org/ten_reasons/"><b><span style="color:#C00000">10 Reasons to Support the Revitalize Main Street Act</span></b></a></span></u></strong>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif;background:white">Yours, <br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;background:white"><img border="0" width="156" height="69" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://img-ak.verticalresponse.com/media/3/2/4/3241d08aec/75985c3403/dddb8805ae/library/PeggyM-signature_dark_trans%202.gif" alt="PeggyM-signature_dark_trans 2"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook",serif;background:white">Peggy Moretti <br>
Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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P.S. <span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Please forward this request</span> to all your friends and colleagues to<strong><span style="font-family:"Gill Sans MT",sans-serif">
<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/75985c3403/b13a66874a/c51ed0327e">
add their names</a> </span></strong>to our list of supporters and contact their state legislators.
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