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Posted by: admin on Feb 02, 2010 - 09:23 AM
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Fundraising Efforts Continue to Support/Save Mounted Patrol
Amherst, MA: The University of Massachusetts Police Department (UMPD) announces that its horse-mounted accepted $4,000 in donations, and approximately $2,000 in supplies, during its six-month 2009 fundraising campaign.
UMPD is still soliciting equestrians, corporations, and the general public to assist the mounted patrol by providing a tax-deductible contribution to the UMass Mounted Police Fund.
The goal is to raise sufficient funds to offset additional projected cutbacks in state aid, which continue to threaten the elimination of the mounted unit in Fiscal Year 2011. Ideally, $16,000 more needs to be raised prior to Fiscal Year 2011.
As part of a state-assisted public university, the UMPD mounted unit can accept private contributions and form public-private partnerships to fund the horse patrol program. A trust-type fund exists for these purposes.
The annual operating budget for the UMPD mounted unit is approximately $15,000-$20,000. The mounted unit has been directed to solicit private funds and support for the first time since 2000.
The public is asked to pledge its support by contributing on-line at www.umass.edu/give, under the gift allocation “Mounted Police”, or by calling the UMass Development Office at 866-450-UMASS.
During the recession of 1989, community support and gifts of over $70,000 helped launch the return of the mounted unit to the UMass campus and surrounding university-owned state forests.
The UMass Police Mounted Unit celebrated its 20th anniversary on patrol in 2009. The unit’s history includes providing services such as community relations, sponsoring a child ID program, supporting charities, confronting hostile World Series and Super Bowl and other UMass rioters, and enforcing laws.
For further information please contact Police Officers Jeffrey Skinner,
C.J. Stechmann, or Lieutenant David White, UMPD Mounted Unit, at (413) 545-2121.
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