[nfbmi-talk] You Can Help

[joe harcz Comcast]

Yes, and the commissioners already have many reports or should have them 
under the Rehab Act. They also have financials, including the operating 
budget through the first three quarters of the yer. Something that has been 
denied to this requester and something that was openly promised by Mr. 
Cannon at the budget meeting of July 26, as well as the data you are 
requesting here Fred.

What happened to the promise of delivery of in information required by 
several laws? Cannon threw that on the dog pile of requests for information 
called the Michigan Freedom of Information Act and DELEG's abuse of that law 
and process.

Anyway well written Fred and thank you for it.

sincerely,

Joe
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
To: "'Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair'" <pilarskij at CHARTER.NET>; "'Geri 
Taeckens'" <geri.taeckens at isahealthfund.org>
Cc: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 10:03 PM
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] You Can Help


> Hello,
>
>
>
> I am writing to try, once again, to appeal to you, the Board, to consider
> how process affects relationships.  I applaud the idea of reviewing the 
> data
> and data collection within MCB.  State and federal rules and procedures
> already require significant data collection.  As I said in an earlier
> message to you, Geri, it seems simpler to review what is already being 
> done
> and add in what is missing.
>
>
>
> Second, the MCB could simply post the data that it collects on the 
> internet.
> Again, this would allow anyone interested to look for the data they are
> interested in and then request the addition of data they would like to see
> collected.  Furthermore, such data as the RSA-911 and RSA-15 reports are
> public information and thus ought to be widely distributed to interested
> parties as state and federal law requires.  To withhold or resist sharing
> this information creates a sense of exclusion, disrespect and possibly a
> violation of the law.
>
>
>
> My reason for writing is to ask if you, the MCB Board, can explain this
> behavior.  It seems counterproductive, self-defeating and will lead to 
> more
> conflict and distrust.  In the end, we will gain access to public
> information, anyway.  Collaboration, openness and inclusion would build
> positive relationships, reduce distrust and make administration easier and
> more effective.  So I ask, why?  Why alienate your constituents.  Why 
> create
> a paternalistic and arrogant aura?  I believe that I know that is not your
> personalities or those of your colleagues on the Board.  What will be 
> gained
> from intentionally increasing distrust?
>
>
>
> I, along with many of my friends and colleagues are committed to seeing 
> P.A.
> 260 coming to full bloom.  Right now, we are at the lowest point in
> consumer/agency relationships since the passage of the law.  When we look
> back some years from now, we will point to this episode as the time that
> consumers finally stepped up to fully implement the law.  We will look 
> back
> and see that this conflict helped us to create systems and processes that
> put consumers, not bureaucrats, in the forefront of the reason for the MCB
> Until then we will struggle together, you and us.  Until love, reason and
> good sense rise to be our mutual guideposts for how we relate people will
> suffer by being unfairly fired, forced out, smeared and generally 
> mistreated
> just because the bureaucracy, temporarily, has the power.  Power is always
> temporary.  The day will come when bullying, intimidation and 
> mismanagement
> will cease.  Consumers will be there to see it and celebrate the victory 
> of
> reason over tyranny.  You can reverse this, today.  For my part, I and 
> most
> of the people I associate with, yearn for the time when we can sit down
> together in civil discourse to make Michigan a great place to be blind.  I
> take no pleasure in these circumstances and I am saddened with the stress 
> in
> my fellowship with many people who I really like.  Justice and freedom 
> come
> at a cost, I Guess.
>
>
>
> Warm Regards,
>
>
>
> Fred.
>
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