Monthly Archives: July 2011

COW PALACE UNDER THREAT AGAIN

SB249 (Yee) WOULD KILL THE COW PALACE!

Senator Yee’s ill-conceived Bill would bring down the Cow Palace by making it impossible for promoters to afford to book there.

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: WRITE LETTER TODAY TO VOICE OPPOSITION TO SB249

***Critical Vote on August 22, 2011***

Senator Yee has again created an “amendment of death” to an earlier bill.  SB249 WOULD REQUIRE ALL PROMOTERS AT THE COW PALACE TO POST UP FRONT MONEY TO COVER OPEN ENDED “POTENTIAL” COSTS FOR FIRE, POLICE AND MEDICAL SERVICES.   This is an impossible requirement, that would force promoters to abandon the Cow Palace for other venues.

Promoters are already required to have Liability Insurance AND to hire security staff, EMT, Paramedics and or police presence reasonable for any given event.    SB249 will create a financially prohibitive requirement – by law – for promoters, which will effectively SHUT DOWN the Cow Palaces revenue stream, forcing existing events to move to other venues or cancel entirely.   The impact on local jobs and economy will also be significant.    The Cow Palace is actually thriving, even with no State Funding!   Community favorites like the Circus are coming back and new shows are being added all the time.   We saved it before …once, twice…now we must do it a third time!

Don’t delay.  Take 5 minutes and SAVE YOUR COW PALACE! Here’s how:

Write a letter to the Chairwoman of the powerful Agriculture Committee urging her to recommend voting against SB249 (click on TAKE ACTION for sample letter)

#2 Write letters to the SF Chronicle,  Examiner, Bay Guardian, and other print and electronic media, expressing why you think the Cow Palace is important to the Bay Area and that Senator Yee and Daily City should keep their hands off it!

#3 Call Senator Yee’s office and express your disappointment in his willingness to kill cultural institutions to solve short term budgetary concerns.

CLICK HERE to Take action NOW!