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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi again, after talking to Eddie Bell at the Louisiana center… What is the OID plan in CT? Older individuals for blind seniors plan? Vo rehab only serves 14 and older legally in CT. That would have to be changed in the legislature. Used to be 18 years old till 2014. Now its 14 years old. New Jersey serves down to infancy, for instance. That’s a state law to change. CT. would say that schools should be paying for under 14in CT. Ask Gregg Trapp in New Mexico for more, if anyone knows him? Where is the OId money going to? How does the state of CT. Match the federal allotment money from the federal government? Do we have a commissioner n for the blind? Or have they consolidated? Beth ? <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Elizabeth Rival <erival@comcast.net> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 08, 2021 12:05 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'maryanne.melley@gmail.com' <maryanne.melley@gmail.com>; 'marysilverfox@gmail.com' <marysilverfox@gmail.com>; 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List' <ct-nfb@nfbnet.org>; 'rmirdi@aol.com' <rmirdi@aol.com>; 'j.mccollum64@comcast.net' <j.mccollum64@comcast.net>; 'deb.reed57@gmail.com' <deb.reed57@gmail.com>; 'veronicalalston@gmail.com' <veronicalalston@gmail.com>; 'bmartin1998@gmail.com' <bmartin1998@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Letter for Amy Porter<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi, the comment , director, if there should be one… take that out, of course there needs to be a director. I also agree with rest of comments, still waiting to here from Louisiana and national. Beth <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:maryanne.melley@gmail.com">maryanne.melley@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:maryanne.melley@gmail.com">maryanne.melley@gmail.com</a>> <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 08, 2021 10:29 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:erival@comcast.net">erival@comcast.net</a>; <a href="mailto:marysilverfox@gmail.com">marysilverfox@gmail.com</a>; 'NFB of Connecticut Mailing List' <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>>; <a href="mailto:rmirdi@aol.com">rmirdi@aol.com</a>; <a href="mailto:j.mccollum64@comcast.net">j.mccollum64@comcast.net</a>; <a href="mailto:deb.reed57@gmail.com">deb.reed57@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:veronicalalston@gmail.com">veronicalalston@gmail.com</a>; <a href="mailto:bmartin1998@gmail.com">bmartin1998@gmail.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Letter for Amy Porter<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Hello Board Members,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Please review the attached letter for Amy Porter. Edit as you feel appropriate. I will then email it to her.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Maryanne Melley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>President<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>860-212-5549<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><a href="mailto:maryanne.melley@gmail.com">maryanne.melley@gmail.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Together with love, hope, and determination, we transform dreams into reality<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>