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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Deborah,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I agree that there needs to be a way to voice our concerns about the chapter. Eric has already mentioned in the open letter to the chapter that he is not our sounding board, so we need to be able to resolve our issues ourselves. That is my suggestion, but I agree with what ever the majority decides.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Much Love,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Walter Mitchell<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Cinci-nfb [mailto:cinci-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Deborah Kendrick via Cinci-nfb<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 28, 2015 10:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> cinci-nfb@nfbnet.org<br><b>Cc:</b> Deborah Kendrick<br><b>Subject:</b> [Cinci-nfb] Communication suggestion<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Dear Cincinnati NFB members,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>First, thank those of you who were in attendance and for a fabulous and productive meeting. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Secondly, there was a definite undercurrent of</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>unrest</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>at a few points, and I’ve been</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>trying to figure out how we might fix it. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We say we are like a family. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Certainly, all families have moments when all its members have trouble agreeing. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>As your leader, I believe I have accomplished much with our chapter in the last two years – creating three strong committees, adding an email list where we can have conversations outside meetings,</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>securing a post office box,</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>growing our board to its full complement of seven members,</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>and increasing our</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>membership significantly. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I love the NFB and I love serving each and every one of you. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>If there are things that I or</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>another officer or board member or the chapter as a whole</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>do or fail to do</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>that displease you, I encourage you not to play the telephone game, but to bring it to the entire group. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>There is strength in solidarity and only weakness in discord. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>My suggestion is this. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Could we ask one person outside the chapter to collect comments, complaints, suggestions from members who submit them anonymously, and then look at them together, as a group, and figure out how to make our family a stronger one? </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>My suggestion is that perhaps someone at the state level – Eric or Barbara perhaps – would be willing to collect such comments for us, strip them of the identity of their senders, and compile them into a list. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>We then could look at the list as a group, address the concerns (or praises) raised there, and put negativity on the shelf. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I have not asked either of them if they would do this for us,</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>mind you, as I am thinking this all pretty much at the spur of the moment. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>I just want to put an end to any dissatisfaction that individuals might be harboring, and move forward as</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>the truly dynamic group I know us to be.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Only when we work together, collaboratively, and in a spirit of unity can we</span> <span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>enjoy genuine progress and accomplishment. </span> <o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Please tell me privately or on this list what you think of the above idea, and I will ask one of our state leaders to help. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Let’s go build the Federation – together!</span><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Deborah</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>