[Nfbf-l] vision summit

[RJ Sandefur]

Is Robert Doyle open to consumer groups? RJ
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denise Valkema" <valkemadenise at aol.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] vision summit


>I am not sure but don't think so.
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> Sincerely, Denise Valkema by iPhone
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>> On Feb 18, 2014, at 1:26 PM, "RJ Sandefur" 
>> <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Was the summit audio recorded? RJ
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Valkema" 
>> <valkemadenise at aol.com>
>> To: "NFBF" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:11 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] vision summit
>>
>>
>>> I traveled by bus Tueaday, 2/11/14 at 7:05pm and arrived in Tallahassee 
>>> at 5:05am and attended the Florida Rehab Council meeting all day 
>>> Wednesday, 2/12/14 with Eric, Jacksonville, and part of afternoon with 
>>> Latoya, Jacksonville.
>>>
>>> At 7:00am on Thursday Eric, Latoya, and I met in lobby of hotel with 
>>> council members to shuttle to capital for summit. We met up with members 
>>> of the Tallahassee chapter (Johnnie, Sylvia, Donald) under the 
>>> organization and leadership of President Johnnie Slaton covered the NFB 
>>> resource table. Many were wearing the champions of freedom T-shirt. 
>>> Tinetta,  NFBF Tallahassee, helped with registration. A continental 
>>> breakfast was served and we mingled before summit meeting started. After 
>>> the summit some had an appointment in  a Congressman's office.
>>>
>>> In summary, Representative Baxley mentioned that he is looking for a 
>>> current bill to add additional support for white cane law. Mr. Doyle 
>>> mentioned the three fold chord cannot easily be broken-client, 
>>> counselor, network; legislative, executive, judicial; respect, trust, 
>>> transparency.
>>> Paul Edwards, FCB President, talked about three crisis of state 
>>> population growing and not enough funding for older population to 
>>> receive services, driver received no blame for violating white cane law 
>>> after hitting a member in Tallahassee, and unemployment rate of blind is 
>>> still at 70% and discriminations till exists. I shared facts from our 
>>> fact sheets on employment, accessibility including myflorida site, and 
>>> transportation. These were handouts on each table. I mentioned we are a 
>>> resource, scholarships available, and thankful for continuing to have 
>>> Newsline in Florida. I mentioned that we are grateful to be working to 
>>> find possible solutions to these challenges instead of crisis. We had 
>>> round table discussion on how we could solve issues in these three 
>>> areas. A summary from each table was presented to all and will be in a 
>>> report from FAASB.
>>>
>>> I took a bus at 1:30pm and returned home after 12:30am on 2/14/14.
>>>
>>> Thanks to all that helped NFBF have a voice, participation, and greater 
>>> presence at the 2014 vision summit! Yeah Florida!
>>>
>>> Sincerely, Denise Valkema by iPhone
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