[nabs-l] Oregon school audit

[T. Joseph Carter]

Alena,

There's going to be a rally in downtown Salem on the capitol steps at 
10:00 tomorrow.  If you can make it, please attend.  They assure us 
that the budget doesn't close the Commission, but I can think of six 
other ways for them to do it, and we need to send a clear message 
that we're not having any of it.

I promise not to be a boring speaker.  *grin*

Joseph


On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:36:26PM -0700, alena roberts wrote:
>As a client of the Oregon commission for the blind I am with Joeseph
>on this issue. Maybe mistakes have been made, but that doesn't mean we
>should shut down the whole organization.
>
>Alena
>
>On 5/19/09, T. Joseph Carter <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> Two issues.  School for the Blind is being closed.  Next is the
>> Commission for the Blind.  The audit shows that mismanagement
>> happened.  (The Oregon ACB have vilified the NFB for admitting this
>> in its press release.)  These problems need to be addressed, but not
>> not by closing the agency and folding it into a larger, even less
>> accountable bureaucracy providing everything from Medicaid to
>> Children's Protective Services to Vocational Rehabilitation.
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:15:59AM -0700, Jim Reed wrote:
>>>Joeseph,
>>>
>>>A $61,000 bike trip? It sounds to me like someone at the agency needs to,
>>> at minimum, be fired, if not jailed for malfeasance.
>>>
>>>Jim