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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This is it - Take 5 minutes to email your legislators today! </span></strong>
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<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">We’re in the final rounds of a prize fight for preservation and economic development! With just two weeks left in the session, State legislators need to be reminded that
<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/nQON1QoiAsM"><span style="font-weight:normal">MAIN STREET MATTERS</span></a></span></strong> and it’s time to
<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/2d54b9e430/utm_content=deniseb%40restoreoregon.org&utm_source=VerticalResponse&utm_medium=Email&utm_term=PASS%20the%20REVITALIZE%20MAIN%20STREET%20ACT%2FSB%20565&utm_campaign=It%27s%20time%20to%20fight%21"><span style="color:red">PASS
the REVITALIZE MAIN STREET ACT/SB 565</span></a></span></strong>.<br>
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As an editorial endorsement in the East Oregonian states, “in rural Oregon, preservation is about survival” and communities are “fighting tooth and nail to hold onto our young people, our jobs, and our buildings.” <br>
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The Revitalize Main Street Act is a modest investment with a big return in the form of new jobs, economic vitality, cultural heritage, and seismic safety for communities from Astoria to Enterprise, Portland to Klamath Falls. Yet we face stiff competition for
funding.<br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Help us cross the finish line!</span></strong>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/601df5292e"><span style="color:red">Contact your state Senator and Representative</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">
to tell them to support SB 565. A couple of key points to make in an email include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Our economic impact study projects a 4-fold increase in historic rehabilitation projects and SB 565 will pay for itself by creating new JOBS, attracting new BUSINESSES, and generating more PROPERTY
TAX REVENUES to pay for schools and services.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">35 states have similar incentives and have proven they’re a profitable state investment in economic development for communities large and small.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:15.75pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">SB 565 is endorsed by 35 Oregon mayors/city councils, 31 downtown business associations, 36 organizations ranging from 1000 Friends of Oregon to the Oregon Economic Development Association, and State
Treasurer Ted Wheeler. <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="line-height:15.75pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The Revitalize Main Street Act has also received editorial endorsements from newspapers around the state, including the
<a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/22b161ff13">
East Oregonian</a>, <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/9ee50d3bd1">
Medford Mail Tribune</a>, <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/eff707adb7">
Statesman Journal</a>, <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/07dcaadc38">
Daily Astorian</a>, with more expected. And our <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/b3006e3efe" target="_blank">
Oregonian OpEd</a> speaks for itself.<br>
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Even if you’ve already contacted them before, please </span><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:red"><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?RestoreOregon/f6a586e23e/5cc67fdce6/a391f7efc3"><span style="color:red">email your State
Representative and State Senator NOW</span></a></span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> – and
<span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">pass this along to friends and colleagues</span>. It will make all the difference.<br>
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THANK YOU!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">The <strong><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Revitalize Main Street</span></strong> <strong><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif">Act</span></strong> creates
a Historic Rehabilitation Fund to provide a 25% rebate for the rehabilitation of historic commercial buildings – stores, hotels, theaters, apartments, factories, mills, etc. – creating jobs, attracting businesses, and preserving the places that make Oregon,
OREGON. </span><o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif">Peggy Moretti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3.0pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Tw Cen MT",sans-serif">Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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