[Nfbf-l] My own proposal

Sun Dec 12 18:05:36 UTC 2010

RJ, I like what you have started doing!  We will  reverse this mind set in 
the new administration of Rick Scott's if all of us(NFB, FCB,BVA/FRG,and 
others) work together to do so! Keep it up! Your friend in the cause, Kirk 
Harmon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] My own proposal

Sharry, I'm not femillure as to how to go about doing that, but I felt the
need to write a counter proposal, and thanks for the kind words. If you
wouldn't mind, could you please email me off list and give me some more
ideas as to what I could put into this proposal, because I'm not that greate
at doing these types of thing, and to me, It sounds to babbfied. My email
adress is:
joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com thanks RJ Sandefur
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2010 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] My own proposal

> RJ I admire that you did your research and came to this conclusion, since
> on the FCB list, you previously speculated that the one-agency-fits-all
> model might be worth considering. Thank you also for including our NFBF
> resolution in your submission. I urge you to send your ideas through the
> NFBF leaders, as we will be working closely with the leaders of the FCB to
> hopefully squelch this one-agency idea.
> Sherri
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2010 7:46 AM
> Subject: [Nfbf-l] My own proposal
>
>
>>I think We should write our own proposal, and submit it to the state house
>>and senate. I'm sure you guys are doing this al ready. Hers what I've been
>>working on.
>> Proposal for a separate agency serving the Blind
>>
>>                Realizing that under its present form the Florida division
>> of blind services is presently under the auspices of the department of
>> education, their bye limiting its service delivery, I am proposing to
>> create a separate commission for the blind. This commission would consist
>> of 9 commissioners, a majority of which are to be blind, and this
>> commission for the blind would have a director. Congress has recognized
>> that blind people have to learn things such as daily living skills,
>> orientation and mobility in order to seek and maintain a job. States with
>> separate commissions for the blind, have more consumers in the workforce
>> than due agencies who are under a super agency such as APD is proposing.
>>
>> What authority gives a state the right to create such a commission? The
>> relevant federal law is Title 29 USC, Section 701 (a) (1) (A) of the
>>
>> Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. At its 2005 convention, The
>> national federation of the blind of Florida passed a resolution
>> concerning this issue.
>>
>> Resolution 2005-4 Concerning an Independent Florida Commission for the
>> Blind
>>
>> NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF FLORIDA
>>
>> RESOLUTION 2005-04
>>
>> CONCERNING AN INDEPENDENT FLORIDA COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS
>>
>> the blind of Florida have the right to rehabilitation services that
>> address our
>>
>> unique needs;  and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS
>>
>> the National Federation of the Blind of Florida resolved in 2001 to
>> support the
>>
>> formation of a State Commission for the Blind, an independent
>>
>> consumer-controlled organization, made up of  9 Commissioners as such a
>>
>> Commission would respond to blind consumers; and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS
>>
>> the State legislature has not moved to create such a Commission but has
>> moved
>>
>> the Division of Blind Services from the Department of Education to the
>>
>> Department of Labor and back to the Department of Education again; and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS
>>
>> the State legislature has not acted to create such a Commission but has
>>
>> explored privatizing the Division of the Blind;  and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS
>>
>> the State legislature has not moved to create such a Commission but is
>> working
>>
>> to dismantle the Division of the Blind by proposing to incorporate blind
>> services
>>
>> into an agency to serve all disabilities;  and
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEREAS
>>
>> it has become obvious that the legislature of the State of Florida does
>> not have a
>>
>> clear idea of the unique needs of the blind or how to best serve our
>> needs and
>>
>> has failed to ask us, the State's largest disability organization, The
>> National
>>
>> Federation of the Blind of Florida, what we want and need
>>
>>
>>
>> THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED
>>
>> by the National Federation of the Blind of Florida assembled in
>> Convention this
>>
>> 30th  day of May, 2005, in the city of Boca Raton, that we strongly
>> oppose,
>>
>> object to and  condemn all efforts to transfer the Division of Blind
>> services to a
>>
>> department of Disabilities; and
>>
>>
>>
>> BE It Further Resolved
>>
>> that we, the organized blind of Florida,  loudly and clearly restate our
>>
>> enthusiastic, unshakable resolve that the Florida State Legislature place
>> all blind
>>
>> services under a single, independent Commission , reporting directly to
>> the
>>
>> Governor and Legislature. This is what I'm proposing for Florida. Blind
>> Floridians would not have to worry about the Division of blind services
>> loosing funding because the commissioner of education disagrees with
>> something DBS is doing, rather the director and commissioners, would
>> submit their own separate to the Florida legislators, and they could pass
>> it or reject it. Any ideas? RJ
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