Write to your City Councillor about 2024 Budget

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Join us in thanking the City of Calgary Councillors for investing in the common good of Calgary and encourage them to preserve these investments in the 2024 budget. Budgets are one of the most important statements of values that we have as a society. Especially in our public life. Budget is what also enables life, sustains our evolving city and allows our city to grow progressively.

Over the past five years, we have worked together to lift the needs of Calgarians, and we have worked with our colleagues at city hall to make investments in projects that care currently serving the needs of those who need it the most.

With the current budget debate at city hall, we are asking you to write to your respective city councillors to preserve the important investments they have made in the common good of Calgary. Please edit the sample email below so that it reflects your experinece and priorities.

These investments in the common good we have worked with council to achieve include:

1. Low-income transit pass

2. Home is Here - the City of Calgary’s Housing Strategy

3. Climate strategy

4. Mental Health Strategy

5. Transit - Green line, service levels and safety, 5A network

6. Supports for communities - libraries, community social workers

Join us in thanking the City of Calgary Councillors for investing in the common good of Calgary and encourage them to preserve these investments in the 2024 budget. Budgets are one of the most important statements of values that we have as a society. Especially in our public life. Budget is what also enables life, sustains our evolving city and allows our city to grow progressively.

Over the past five years, we have worked together to lift the needs of Calgarians, and we have worked with our colleagues at city hall to make investments in projects that care currently serving the needs of those who need it the most.

With the current budget debate at city hall, we are asking you to write to your respective city councillors to preserve the important investments they have made in the common good of Calgary. Please edit the sample email below so that it reflects your experinece and priorities.

These investments in the common good we have worked with council to achieve include:

1. Low-income transit pass

2. Home is Here - the City of Calgary’s Housing Strategy

3. Climate strategy

4. Mental Health Strategy

5. Transit - Green line, service levels and safety, 5A network

6. Supports for communities - libraries, community social workers

Support the Common Good in our City's Budget

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Over the last five years, we have worked together for the common good of Calgarians. 
I am writing to ask you to ensure that the city continues to fund: 
1. Low-income transit pass 
2. Home is Here - the City of Calgary’s Housing Strategy 
3. Climate strategy 
4. Mental Health Strategy                                                                       
5. Transit - Green line, service levels and safety, 5A network                 
6. Supports for communities - libraries, community social workers

Thousands of Calgarians can use the low-income transit pass to connect to family, access health care, get an education and find work.

As a city, we are doing our part to address the climate crisis. We have created innovative ways to address the mental health crisis in our city through the mental health strategy. 
We have created a more connected city through support for transit, continuing to build the Green Line Project and developing the 5A network.

We have also worked to build stronger communities by supporting libraries, social workers, parks and recreation. Thank you for being a partner in our shared work of making Calgary a more just and compassionate city.

During this year’s budget debate, we are asking you to preserve these important investments in the well-being of our communities. It is especially important to preserve funding for the low-income transit pass and the mental health strategy. We continue to hear stories of people in our city struggling to make ends meet and, as a result, struggling with greater mental health challenges.

We are also hearing about the struggles people are having finding decent jobs.                         We encourage the city to aim again to be a world-class employer that sets a standard in our community by providing good jobs and working conditions.

Thank you!

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