With State budget cuts looming over the Coordinated Hunger Programs and Senior Nutrition Programs, please consider contacting your elected officicals as constituents and advocates to , and ask for their funding for programs to fight hunger in Arizona.
Annualized for the 2009-10 fiscal year, the Association of Arizona Food Banks would lose more than half their previous state funding if the Coordinated Hunger Programs line item is cut. Especially because even if all food bank-related budget allocations were preserved, cuts to other social service programs would dramatically increase the burden on Arizona’s food banks.
Its critical that our elected ofoicails clearly understand and ensure that they:
• Must preserve and improve Arizona’s fragile health, human and social services safety net by eliminating further cuts and restoring cuts already made in the 2008-09 budget.
• Seriously consider revenue enhancements (not reductions) part of the new budget.
• More fully consider all available alternatives to balance the budget, informed by menu choices from the Arizona Budget Coalition (www.arizonabudgetcoalition.com) and the Fiscal Alternatives Choices Team report.
• Understand the private sector, foundations and the faith community cannot collectively compensate for ill-timed budget cuts.
You can find your officials' contact info at http://www.azleg.gov/.
Thanks for understanding and Advocacy to End Hunger in Arizona,
Hunger 101AZ
Source: Community Food Connections
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