Member Welcome Letter

  

Dear TBBA Member:

 

You’ve heard about the issues coming up.  The Hometown Democracy scam.  Proportionate share for transportation and schools that makes impact fees look like pocket change.  Comprehensive Plans that have no future provision for single-family housing.  Those issues are not coming up any longer– they’re here now.  The Sierra Club and other environmental special interest groups have raised huge sums of money to fund efforts to both make regulations tougher and to stop growth. TBBA’s Industry Issues Fund is geared toward our initiatives for dealing with these problems.

 

Voluntary contributions by TBBA members to the Industry Issues Fund will help to underwrite the cost of issue campaigns and legal challenges to regulatory issues, infrastructure exactions, building moratoria, as well as data research to counter activist propaganda, and public relations campaigns to tell “our side of the story”. (See enclosed brochure).

 

Although the issues directly affect builders and developers, all subcontractors, suppliers, and service companies are all ultimately affected and are encouraged to participate.  Attached are some general guidelines that builder members may follow in considering their annual contributions.  The amounts are small compared to the damage that can be done by those who want to stop or severely restrict growth.

 

So if you’re tired of getting beaten up by government, the media, and activists, please send your fair share contribution to the Industry Issues Fund of the TBBA. It will be one of the best investments that you can make. 

 

Thanks for all your support!

 

Dan Molloy, Chair

Industry Issues Fund