[nfbwatlk] Rally to Help Save WTBBL Funding

[Chris & Judy Jones]

Hi, Jacob and List,

Fours of are coming from Tacoma.

Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jacob Struiksma" <lawnmower84 at hotmail.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Rally to Help Save WTBBL Funding


> Hello everyone,
> I will be at this rally .  Who else is going?
> see you on Wednesday
> from
> Jacob Struiksma
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
> To: "NFB of Washington Talk" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:39 PM
> Subject: [nfbwatlk] Rally to Help Save WTBBL Funding
>
>
> Fellow Federationists and friends:
>
> The Washington Talking Book and Braille Library (WTBBL) fared poorly in
> the recently-released Senate budget proposal, garnering an increase of
> only $72,000 which is not nearly enough to make up the likely budgetary
> shortfall (WTBBL has not had a funding increase for the past six years).
> The House proposed budget contained *no* increase in WTBBL's allotment.
> Without a substantial increase in funding, WTBBL is likely to suffer
> severe staffing and service cuts over the coming biennium. Therefore,
> the National Federation of the Blind of Washington (NFBW)and the
> Washington Council of the Blind (WCB) propose to hold a rally on the
> steps of the Capitol in Olympia next Wednesday, April 4. The rally will
> begin sometime around 11:00 a.m. and end around 1:00 p.m., after which
> we will split into two groups and either sit in the House and Senate
> galleries with our canes and dogs in evidence or stand at the House and
> Senate doors in "Ulcer Gulch", passing in slips to speak with our
> senators and representatives to urge them to include the $902,000 WTBBL
> funding proposed by the Washington Secretary of State.
>
> This will be our last chance to try to influence the legislature this
> session inasmuch as the legislature is anxious to go home and the budget
> will largely be set by April 7. If this effort fails, we will be back
> next year. It is far better, however, to avoid staff and service cuts
> than to recover from them after-the-fact. So now is the time to make
> your voices heard in Olympia.
>
> If you would like to participate, please call Kay Burrows at either
> (206) 367-5037 or (206) 551-6233. You may also write her at
> noaprlfoo at aol.com. Please let her know of your intention to come to
> Olympia. WCB plans to have a bus coming from Seattle. I do not know the
> deadline for reserving a seat on that bus; I will communicate this
> information as soon as I receive it. However, if you wish to arrange
> other transportation, the NFB of Washington will reimburse you.
>
> Remember: now is the time to let the legislature know that we, the
> blind, exist and that we will not be silent! WE want WTBBL to remain the
> vibrant, excellent library that it is! WE will not be ignored!
>
> To the barricades, comrades!
>
> Mike Freeman, President
> National Federation of the Blind of Washington
>
>
>
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