[CT-NFB] Fwd: [External] High Priority Rehabnet Request

[Phillip Magalnick]

Affiliate leaders and colleagues,
Sorry for the last moment, I was just made aware of this special teleconference being held tomorrow by Ted Kennedy Junior.
Please see the below details.

Respectfully,
P.A. Magalnick,JP
203-912-5783
Justice of the Peace, CT
President, National Federation of the Blind-SWCT Chapter
1st VP, National Federation of the Blind-CT Affiliate
Vice-Chair, Stamford Committee on Accessibility



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> From: Alan Gunzburg <24fado at optonline.net>
> Date: April 1, 2020 at 4:33:33 PM EDT
> To: "Phillip A. Magalnick" <philmag at optonline.net>
> Subject: Fwd: Fw:  [External] High Priority Rehabnet Request
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>> ---------- Original Message ---------- 
>> From: "Taylor, Sherry A" <Sherry.A.Taylor at wv.gov> 
>> To: 
>> Date: April 1, 2020 at 3:57 PM 
>> Subject: Fw: [External] High Priority Rehabnet Request 
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>> FYI
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>> From: Stephen Wooderson <Swooderson at csavr.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 2:15 PM
>> To: RehabNet <RehabNet at csavr.org>
>> Subject: [External] High Priority Rehabnet Request
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>> CAUTION: External email. Do not click links or open attachments unless you verify sender.
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>> Greetings,
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>> As announced on our membership call, we would appreciate your feedback by no later than Friday, April 3 at 12n eastern.  See our request highlighted below.
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>> CSAVR has been offered the opportunity to advocate for the VR Program in the next COVID 19 relief package (Stimulus 4).  Stimulus 4 will originate in the House of Representatives and is not expected to be as large as Stimulus 3; however, our input has been requested. With that in mind, we will be reaching out to House staff to ask if we can address the issues raised in the March 30, CSAVR letter to Secretary DeVos asking for waivers of rules and federal regulations governing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as Amended. As we learned in our RSA Stakeholder teleconference on March 26th, a number of things we requested in our letter are not within the Department’s  purview, but would require statutory changes.
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>> Considering the requests made in our letter to Secretary DeVos as our starting point, are there other things you would like us to advocate for in Stimulus 4 that would greatly benefit and facilitate the delivery of VR services during the Pandemic?
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>> Please send any requests not already covered in the DeVos letter to me and rmartin at csavr.org by 12:00 noon, EST, on Friday, April 3. We are on a tight time-line to provide input. There are no guarantees our requests will be considered, but we are pleased that we have been offered the opportunity to make them. Thank you.
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>> Please note new email address:
>> swooderson at csavr.org
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>> Stephen A. Wooderson
>> CEO ­ CSAVR
>> 1 Research Court, Suite 450
>> Rockville, MD 20850
>> 301-519-8023 ­ Office
>> 202-604-7880 ­ Cell 
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