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Invite a speaker to talk about Amendment One. An Association staff member or someone from the speakers' bureau of the Amendment One campaign is available to speak at a meeting of al local Kiwanis, Rotary, Woman's Club or other local civic group. o Form or join a county team. Local chambers of commerce are taking the lead in organizing county teams to promote Amendment One in many areas of the state. Please call your local chamber to see if it is forming a county team. Join if one has been created and help organize a county team if not. Identify county leaders, recruit these leaders to be on a county campaign committee and identify those who are willing to speak on this issue. The bigger, broader and more diverse the campaign committee is, the better. Look for alliances with elected leaders in both political parties, business leaders, economic developers, community leaders and others. Margaret Webb of the Amendment One campaign, (919) 828-3212, mwebb~amendmentone.org, can give you additional information about organizing a county campaign committee. Learn about Amendment One and help others to do so. Use the Amendment One fact sheet. Pass it out to citizens. Put the information on your website or a bulletin board on cable access television. If you have questions, call our office or contact the Amendment One campaign. o Help us raise money for the campaign. Fund-raising is going well so far, but we need to raise enough money to put on a strong media campaign, particularly in the last few days of the campaign. Counties cannot spend public funds to encourage voters to vote yes (see below). But we need your personal contributions and contributions from your friends, neighbors and local business owners. Please use the enclosed contribution form. Please remember that, as with local bond issues, municipalities and counties cannot spend public funds to advocate passage of Amendment One. In official printed materials prepared with local funds or distributed by the municipality or county, you cannot ask the voters to pass the referen- dum, but you can and should inform them. And, remember, your board and individual elected officials can take a position and actively encourage residents to vote for Amendment One. Passage of Amendment One will add a tool in our efforts to accelerate our economic recovery. We all need the availability of this financing mechanism in situations where self-financing bonds can rehabilitate or revive a community. Please help is securing passage of Amendment One on November 2. Sincerely, Noah Woods President J. Breeden Black.well First Vice President Co-Chair North Carolinians For Jobs and Progress C. Ronald Aycock Executive Director