The Special Districts Download Advocacy Subscription
An Advocacy Subscription Uniquely for the Special Districts Perspective
At Special District Strategies (formerly Karr Advocacy Strategies), we are committed to bringing special districts together through networking and empowering them with resources and information to navigate our unique governance space.
The Special Districts Download advocacy subscription is a platform offering special district leaders and stakeholders with an affordable and accessible platform for network, understand the policy trends that could impact their essential services. Subscribers receive Special District Strategies' flagship biweekly newsletter plus a range of opportunities for grassroots engagement and governance perspectives.
Check out what is included in the Special Districts Download advocacy subscription at right (if on a desktop, or below if mobile).
We hang our hats on reviews referring to the Download as the “Punchbowl News for Special Districts.” Check out a new and easy way for special districts across the country to get news for the districts' perspective, networking, and advocacy resources.
The Special Districts Download is intended to be an affordable and accessible resource for America's special district leaders - the most of whom run their operations on tight, lean budgets. Many are volunteers. The Download is aimed to be a digestable resource a tiny district's manager tasked with emergency waterline repair before staffing their evening board meeting and a large district's government affairs manager alike.
All subscriptions begin with a 31-day trial run with annual, semi-annual, and quarterly subscription options ranging from $50 to $17.50 per term. Check it out below:
Included* with the Download:
Biweekly Special Districts Download - our newsletter for a special purpose - delivered every other Monday.
Breaking news updates on priority matters, as warranted.
Advocacy resources (templates, talking points) on major advocacy issues that impact special districts across multiple service sectors.
Opportunities to join grassroots advocacy coalitions on priority legislative and regulatory issues.
Federal policy tracking, action, and limited state legislative tracking.
One free registration for bimonthly virtual policy presentations and roundtables.
Up to 40% discount on SDS sponsored and coordinated events (virtual or in-person).
No-cost or reduced registration pricing (~10%) for SDS-coordinated events (online/in-person).
Special Districts Download
The Advocacy Subscription for a Special Purpose.
Professional Member Organization Benefits:
Members of the Missouri Special Districts Alliance (a professional service of SDS) will receive the newsletter as benefit of membership through December 31. Missouri Alliance members need not subscribe.
Regular Members (individual special districts) of the American Association of Special Districts as of August 15, 2025, will continue to receive this newsletter via SDS-owned platforms through December 31. Those individual districts need not subscribe.
Members of the Arizona Special Districts Alliance receive a 48 percent discount on subscriptions as benefit to of state membership. Contact cole@karradvocacy.com for more information.
Professional membership organizations with an interest to leverage SDS Download content in their own communications or share access to Download content are encouraged to contact Cole Arreola-Karr, SDS Founder/Principal, at cole@karradvocacy.com.
About the Special Districts Download
The Special Districts Download was launched in February 2024 as a newsletter to inform district leaders on trending issues that stand to impact the delivery of essential services in their communities. Then, this happened under the Karr Advocacy Strategies umbrella as a free service, later transitioned into an informal exclusive service of organizations and districts with which SDS holds professional services agreements, and in September 2025 ultimately transitioned to a subscription service to sustain quality of service and broaden access to more district leader.
Special District Strategies, L.L.C., administers the newsletter's content, delivered via Constant Contact. Cole Arreola-Karr authors the Special District Download newsletter. Contact cole@karradvocacy.com for more information.