YWCA, YRDC, and BOCES

"stop the insanity!"

"Please keep these programs open and maintained. These organizations make a huge difference to the community and its kids."

"These are needed programs--save them!!!"

"The YWCA is such an important facility for our community. Please do what you have to do to keep it open. All of these agencies do so much good, and provide important services."

"Please support these funds. They are vital to the community!"

"Funding and expanding the DC Jail is only a welcome mat for youth who get displaced by these closures. SERVICES NOT JAILS!!"

"Please help keep these institutions open."

"These programs need funding; we do not need more jails."

"These are valuable community resources that the legislature should feel the moral responsibility to support."

"The jail should not be expanded if these programs are going to be shut down. Services are needed, not more jail cells!"

"YRDC, YWCA,BOCES serve popu;ations very much in need in our county that are served by no one else. They help children and adults gain confidence and become productive individuals giving back to their community rather than being a drain on it. Do not cut m"

"there are so many people in Dutchess County who benefit from these critical organizations. Shutting them down will not only be a disservice to individuals but to the community at large"

"Please save these important community resources!!"

"Public services are necessary to help Pou. struggling community"

"As a member of the Dutchess County community, I am very concerned by the negative effects that closing the YWCA and other organizations will have on the community."

"To value the extension of a jail, a place designed to hold the "misanthropes" and "vagrants"of this society and then to cut back the very budget that promotes programs to prevent homelessness, joblessness, drug use and pregnancy, the very things that lead"

"End the war on youth!!"

"Please don't be foolish. The community depends on the services these centers provide."

"Money for these essential programs and not for prison additions! It is the rational choice. Plus, bigger prisons mean lower property values."

"Not funding these programs is more than a betrayal of the trust residents have placed in you. It demonstrates your keen lack of insight into what programs and policies truly help residents . I hope you reconsider, and I especially hope you do so because y"

"Help the YWCA stay open - an important resource!"

"The community can greatly benefit from the maintenece of these important facilities."

"these are important services to the community and should remain open!"