Let’s Keep Jekyll Island Affordable!

                                                   A Petition from Jekyll’s Visitors

                                        Sponsored by the Initiative to Protect Jekyll Island

                                                                    Introduction

Jekyll Island State Park is about to experience major redevelopment. By all indications, the Board of Directors of the Jekyll Island Authority (the governor-appointed agency in charge of the island) intends to upscale Jekyll’s lodgings and various amenities, pricing them beyond the reach of many of its traditional visitors.

The Initiative to Protect Jekyll Island—an all-volunteer, non-profit group serving as the voice of Jekyll’s visitors—is hoping to draw attention to the Jekyll situation by presenting a petition to Governor Perdue and the Jekyll Island House-Senate Oversight Committee calling for the Board to honor the affordability mandate featured in Jekyll Island State Park’s founding legislation.

Our petition effort will not succeed unless Jekyll’s many friends do all they can to circulate the document.   We strongly encourage everyone - Georgians and non-Georgians alike - to support this effort by sharing the petition with family and friends, neighbors and colleagues, and anyone else who might be interested in our cause.

The petition may be completed online at http://www.savejekyllisland.org. Printable copies are available on our web site for distribution from person to person, family to family.  A printable version for hard-copy distribution is available on our web site as well.

Thank you for lending your support to the campaign to preserve and protect the people’s park,

David and Mindy Egan

Co-Directors, Initiative to Protect Jekyll Island - “The Voice of Jekyll’s Visitors” degan@igc.org

By signing your name(s) on the lines below, you can register your support for keeping Jekyll Island State Park affordable for average income folks, as the law intended. If you have not given us your e-mail address previously, please do so if you wish to receive updates regarding the Jekyll redevelopment issue. ***E-mail address will be kept strictly confidential.***

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