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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hello all,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am sorry I can’t make the chapter meeting tonight, but wanted you to have this information.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>We need people to attend the O&M Bill House Hearing on February 26 and the Senate Hearing on March 4. We will have transportation leaving from the NFB building at 11:30 am. We cannot say exactly what time we will get home. If you plan to use mobility, tell them 5pm. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please write letters to the following delegates asking them to support HB 535, Orientation and Mobility Instruction for Blind and Visually-Impaired Children. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Robert Long – Room 325<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Richard Metzgar – Room 307<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>They are from Baltimore County. Please also write to,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Sheila Hixson, Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee – Room 131<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The address for all Delegates is Lowe House Office Building, Annapolis, MD 21401<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please write to the following Senators and ask them to support SB 538, which is the Senate version of the O&M bill.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Senator Johnny Ray Salling – Room 416, James Senate Office Building<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please write to Senator Joan Carter Conway, Chairman, Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, Room 2W, Miller Senate Office Building. Thank her for sponsoring the bill.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The city and zip code are the same for both Senators.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please write to the Chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee and ask him not to cut the $250,000 appropriated for the CENA in the Governor’s budget. Senator Edward Kasemeyer, Room 3W, Miller Senate Office Building, Annapolis, MD 21401.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please give the same message about the $250,000 to Delegate Maggie McIntosh, Chairman, House Appropriations Committee, Room 121, Lowe House Office Building, Annapolis, MD 21401.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please get all of these letters out by March 9. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you very much for your help,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Sharon Maneki, </b>President<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>National Federation of the Blind of Maryland<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>410-715-9596<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>