Fundraising...sigh UPDATED

I need advice on fundraising. If the Mt. Lebanon Commissioners do appeal the Office of Open Records Final Determination, it appears that I will need an attorney. For the first round in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, I need to raise $3500 to start. If there is an appeal after that, I will need additional funds for Commonwealth Court. Don't worry about me wasting taxpayers' money since the municipality has an annual contract with Buchanan Ingersoll. The appeals will come out of my pocket.

I have been looking into gofund me. They take 8%. It looks like fundrazr charges the same amount. I'm thinking of starting a paypal account instead. Anybody out there who could give me some friendly advice either here or privately at EGillen476@aol.com?

Update December 16, 2015 6:49 AM As of now, I have not been served. Mt. Lebanon has until December 24 to appeal to the Court of Common Pleas. I have decided to go with gofundme for the reasons that were mentioned in the comments. I do have a Paypal account, but I don't think is what I need in this situation. I don't want to go live until I am served, but we need help from someone who has some experience with gofundme and who can provide us some guidance with the nuts and bolts of gofundme.

TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE!

My mailbox is being flooded with emails complaining about the eblast that was just sent. This is totally inappropriate, using municipal email/resources to raise private funds for a private field. It is my understanding that Sandy Kyper works in the Recreation Department with David Donnellan.

Begin forwarded message:

From: "Sandy Kyper" <skyper@mtlebanon.org>
Date: April 10, 2014 at 1:18:27 PM EDT
To: skyper@mtlebanon.org
Cc: ddonnellan@mtlebanon.org, lwuycheck@mtlebanon.org, pcannon@mtlebanon.org,skyper@mtlebanon.org
Subject: Mt. Lebanon Field Improvement Project

Subject: Mt. Lebanon Field Improvement Project

As you may know, the Mt. Lebanon Commission approved a plan to install artificial turf at Wildcat and Middle Fields, and allocated approximately $750,000 towards the completion of this important field improvement project.

Adding artificial turf at this location will undoubtedly benefit all of our community recreation and athletic programs, from youth soccer, lacrosse and baseball all the way up through our varsity high school programs; and it will create the opportunity for some much-anticipated adult league play.

The funds allocated by the Commission are conditioned upon a non-municipal, private contribution of approximately $250,000. Through the generosity of Mt. Lebanon's various youth sports associations, over $100,000 has been raised so far.

If you would like to make a TAX DEDUCTIBLE donation to the Turf Project Fund, donations will be received and held by the Mt. Lebanon Community Endowment. Please visit the link below to make your tax deductible contribution online:

 http://www.mtlebanonendowment.org/contributions/field-improvement-project/

The deadline for contributions is May 13, 2014.

Mt. Lebanon, are you going to tolerate this? Why are we allowing it to continue? This project is a WANT by Dave Brumfield, Dave Franklin, and David Donnellan.