Severe Cutback Planned for 2012; Pond Spring May Be Affected
The Alabama Historical Commission, which oversees the continuing preservation of Pond Spring and many other historic properties across the state, faces a devastating 45% budget cut in fiscal year 2012.
AHC has sent along this flyer urging supporters of Alabama's heritage contact their legislative representatives and voice their concern on this issue.
Alabama’s historic and archaeological places are at risk!
The Alabama Historical Commission is facing a devastating 45% budget cut for FY 2012.
Please contact your legislators today. click here
Tell them this cut is too deep. Ask them to add $250,000 to the Governor’s request. This will reduce our cut to 36%.
Even at this level, we are faced with eliminating or crippling essential programs and services like:
- documenting, monitoring and registering state landmarks and cemeteries
- ending digitization of irreplaceable data about Alabama buildings
- on-site professional assessments of buildings and archeological sites
- training and assistance programs
Reducing or ending educational programs like:
- Alabama Frontier Days at Fort Toulouse
- summer Candlelight Tours at Fort Morgan
- tours of our Alabama Capitol
- closing or reducing hours at historic sites across the state
- losing income from admissions and gift shop sales, compounding the cuts
- ending needed capital repairs and rehab projects on our historic sites
- laying off staff, losing irreplaceable expertise
Tell them you value Alabama’s heritage and the services and programs the Alabama Historical Commission provides your community.
Tell them you value your local historic site and its positive impact on your community. Tell them preservation is a powerful tool for economic development.PRESERVATION:
- creates private sector jobs at all income levels in construction and tourism industries
- increases property values and tax revenues, returning vacant buildings to tax rolls
- enhances tourism—the state’s #2 industry
- provides affordable spaces for small businesses—our key job generators
- maintains capital investments made by earlier generations
- helps create the kind of communities that attract industry
- lower tax revenues from sales, income and property tax
- loss of private sector jobs and household income
- less attractive image for tourists and industry
- irretrievable loss of our cultural and historic heritage