What Can I Do?
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Attend Council Meetings:
All interested Buncombe County
residents should attend as many City Council Meetings as possible
wearing a red shirt which will indicate you wish to Stop Forced
Annexation.
Contact each
City Council member
by
writing your own letter to let them know that you are opposed to forced
annexation, and that if they “vote us in, we will vote them out.”
Encourage the Council Members to “do the right thing” and honor people’s
wishes to remain separate from the City of Asheville. For contact
information, see
Asheville City Council.
A note on writing your own letters,
which we encourage you to do:
Keep the tone of your letters strong, yet constructive, to be taken
seriously. All correspondence
must be signed including contact information (address/phone number). We have been advised that without contact
information, all correspondence is disregarded or discarded. They need
to know who we are, and that we are serious.
Help identify and support
elect-able candidates for City Council who are opposed to forced annexation. In addition, if you are not
already registered to vote, please do so.
Support our
County Commissioners who have
proposed the moratorium on annexation within Buncombe County. Contact
all county commissioners and let them know that you are opposed to
forced annexation, and encourage them to be active in supporting this
position. To contact all commissioners, call (828) 250-4001 or email to
commissioners@buncombecounty.org. We suggest, in addition to contacting commissioners via the
“catch-all” email address, contacting each commissioner individually.
See Buncombe County
Commissioners for contact information.
Contact local
State Representatives
Susan Fisher and Tim Moffitt to let
them know that they
need to support Representative Bruce Goforth's efforts to get
annexation reform legislation passed into law. They need to be reminded that “if we are
voted in, we will vote them out.”
Contact
local State Senators
Apodaca
and Nesbitt
to let them know that you are opposed to forced annexation and
that they should follow the lead of Representative Goforth,
and introduce similar legislation to the Senate, on our behalf. In
addition, let them know that they should support all Senate bills in
opposition to forced annexation.
Finally, you can
contribute locally to support our legal efforts to Stop Asheville in
their efforts to forcibly annex Biltmore Lake by sending your check to
the address shown.
Thank you for your support!
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