Sample Letter Formats

Important:  These letters are only samples.  You should rewrite your letter in your own words.  Handwritten letters and phone calls carry much more weight than electronic email messages.  In fact, it has been said that just three letters can constitute a hot political issue to a politician.  Addresses are found on the "Important Contacts" page.

The following is a sample of an "official complaint" to the City of Galveston Planning Department as defined by the General Land Office rules for implementing the Texas Open Beaches Act...this complaint requires that the local governing body contact the GLO within 24 hours with news of the complaint.

(Date)

Dear Ms. O'Donahoe:

    I am registering a formal complaint of violation by the City of Galveston of City of Galveston Ordinance 93-73, City of Galveston Ordinance 94-26 and the Open Beaches Act, in that the City of Galveston has not provided adequate, paved parking for approximately 528 vehicles, nor access to the public beach at one half mile intervals along the stretch of beach between the west boundary of Apffel Park and Stewart Beach Park's east boundary as required by said City of Galveston
Ordinances and/or the Open Beaches Act. 

    I request to be notified of what remedies the City of Galveston is going to provide and the time frame in which the remedies are going to be effected.

    Additionally, I am requesting a copy of the City of Galveston notification to the General Land Office of this violation, as required to be made within 24 hours of verification of this violation under said City Ordinances, under the provisions of the Open Records Act.  I am willing to pay any reasonable reproduction costs.

Thank you,

/S/Signature

In the near future we will be posting a listing of all OBA violations noted.