Date: Feb. 25, 2005

House Bill 1299 would authorize a new food and beverage/family meals tax in Avon, Monroe County, and Wayne County. We expect that on Monday

Feb. 28th there will be attempts made to add other cities or counties and there may even be an amendment offered to authorize any community to adopt a sales tax on prepared food without going to the legislature.

Please make a special effort to talk to your legislator before this bill is called on Monday. Urge your House of Representative Member to vote against any proposed amendment to add other communities into the bill and against the bill when it is eligible for final passage on Tuesday.

In addition to your own calls I urge you to organize calls and/or emails from others in your area. If you can help generate 10 or more contacts with your legislator the chances of our being successful will

improve dramatically. Direct employees, customers, friends and other restaurant owners/managers to www.capwiz.com/la <http://www.capwiz.com/la> for additional information.

Finally, the most effective thing you can do is come to Indianapolis on Monday or Tuesday and talk to your legislator in person, face-to-face! They are scheduled to come into session at 10:00 AM on both days and they will have many bills to consider. Some, like Daylight Savings Time, are very controversial. They are likely to be in session late into the evening because bills that fail to pass by Tuesday will be dead.

When they are in session you can send a note into the Chamber and ask them to come out into the all to talk to you. The Republican desk is on the left side of the House Chamber and the Democratic desk is on the right side. The House Chamber is located on the east side of the 3rd floor in the State House.