Please vote in the upcoming SRP board elections if you can. This is for registered voters who own property in the SRP areas, which probably includes any property you own in the East Valley.

The election is April 1, but you can vote by mail if you request your early ballot by the end of this week, March 21. To do that, go to [& see a map of the districts]:

http://www.srpnet.com/elections/

and put in your voter and property info. Everyone on the deed gets a fraction of the vote for that property, if they’re a registered voter.

This election can really make a difference, because there can be as few as 200 total voters in one SRP region, such as our SRP “Precinct 8″ (not to be confused with your ordinary precinct designation).

I don’t know about the other SRP regions, but in ours there is a good candidate I have met, Amanda Ormond. I haven’t talked with her or anyone else about my sending out this info, which I am doing entirely on my own. But she has a web site at

http://www.amandaforsrp.org/

if you want to see more about her. It’s a chance to get someone on the SRP board who cares about the environment and is not just put in by the farmers and developers.

- Bruce M., Tempe, AZ