<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Susan Prows <s_prows@hotmail.com><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Action plan WATBBL</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">July 15, 2026 at 1:35:45\u202fPM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marci Carpenter <mjc59@comcast.net><br></span></div><br><div>
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<div dir="ltr">This is what thought we could send out\u2026</div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-weight: bold;">Greetings fellow Federationist</span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; min-height: 22px;">
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<span class="s2">The state is currently process for the biannual budget. While the legislature will not convene until January 2027, it is important that we start educating our current legislators, as well as their opponents now to support funding
our Washington Talking Book And Braille Library. As you all know, we are very bipartisan organization and it will take votes on both sides to get funding through. The following is what we need from the general fund, $1 million to just keep the doors
open at WTBBL. This is the one place that blind, DeafBlind and other prints disabled people can get a wide variety of materials. It serves us from birth to old age. </span>Local libraries don\u2019t have the vast selection or accessibility that WTBBL has. With an increasing population of low vision seniors in the state, it is expected that there will be 755,000
low vision seniors who will need services by 2035. It is very important that we all get out and talk to current and potential legislators to educate them about our needs. The budget will be extremely tight next year and everybody is fighting for
every penny they can possibly get. We can\u2019t sit this battle out. It takes each and every one of us to start educating the legislature now. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">
<span class="s2">If you have any further questions, please feel free to get back in touch with me. If you get any commitments or strong interest from anyone, please let us myself or Marci know immediately. Thank you.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal;">
<span class="s2">-Susan Prows, s_prows@hotmail.com</span></div>
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