[nfbwatlk] Sam Reed's Letter to Seattle's Mayor Nickels

[Alco Canfield]

Good letter!  Then the library would not have tomove to Olympia.  It will be 
interesting to see what the mayor does.

Alco
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 9:08 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Sam Reed's Letter to Seattle's Mayor Nickels


> Greetings, fellow listers!
>
> Some ten days ago, Sam Reed, Secretary of State, sent a letter to Mayor
> Nickels of Seattle, asking that an agreement be reached with the city of
> Seattle to transfer ownership of the building now housing the Washington
> Talking Book and Braille Library to the Secretary of State as part of the
> transition project to transfer WTBBL operation to the State Library. The
> National Federation of the Blind of Washington favors such a transfer as 
> we
> believe it to have been the intent of the legislature when remodeling of 
> the
> building was funded in 1993 that the building was to house or benefit 
> WTBBL.
> It is our understanding that Seattle contends that it should retain
> ownership of the building. To date, no response has been received from the
> Mayor's Office. If a response is not forthcoming in the near future, we
> shall have to make our views known to the Mayor.
>
> The letter is attached.
>
> Enjoy.
>
> Mike Freeman, President
> NFB of Washington
>


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