[nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?

[Fred Wurtzel]

Well, Joe, have you called larry to volunteer to help?  you wrote the
resolution, can you take some responsibility to get it done?We depend on
lots of people to do things.  

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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?

another six weeks has passed. This is the will of convention assembled to
impliment these resolutions.

That ladies and gentlemen is NFB business!

And it is not a personal attack to point this out.
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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] what has been done on this?


RESOLUTION 2011-01
RESOLUTION RELATED TO PROGRAM ACCESS AND MCB


WHEREAS, all Vocational Rehabilitation entities, including the Michigan 
Commission for the Blind, (MCB) have long ago been required to provide 
"program access" to all the facilities it uses on a daily basis and to hold 
hearings, meetings and events in fully accessible facilities, even to the 
point of signing assurances with the Rehabilitation Services Administration 
annually that it does fully comply with these long-standing obligations; and



            WHEREAS, one of those long-standing requirements was, and is to 
have raised character Braille signage mounted on every permanent room, 
nearest the latch side of each door in accordance with American with 
Disabilities Act Guidelines (3.40.1, 4, 5, and 6); and



            WHEREAS, all such barriers were to have been removed under the 
required ADA transition plan by no later than July 26, 1995, yet exist to 
this very day in most, if not all, facilities used by the MCB; and



            WHEREAS, Patrick D. Cannon was the former Chair of the United 
States Access Board which establishes the standards of the ADAAG, the State 
of Michigan ADA Coordinator responsible for implementation and the Director 
of MCB responsible for full compliance and knowingly so; and



            WHEREAS, the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are 
civil rights laws requiring affirmative action; and therefore these 
inactions by Cannon constitute not only gross dereliction of known duties 
and deliberate indifference to these civil rights laws, but also must be 
considered malicious and intentional acts of mass discrimination; and



            WHEREAS, members of, and indeed the entire state affiliate of 
the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan, have promoted the full 
application of these requirements repeatedly over the years along with 
documenting violations; and



            WHEREAS, the NFB-MI has long promoted Braille, including its use

in the built environment, for reasons obvious to all:



            NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the National Federation of the 
Blind of Michigan in convention assembled this 6th day of November, 2011 in 
the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan that forthwith the NFB-MI lodges a formal 
Complaint with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States 
Department of Education, along with supporting documentation, on behalf of 
all its members, and indeed all people who are blind in the State of 
Michigan, against Patrick D. Cannon, individually, and against the Michigan 
Commission for the Blind as an entity; and



            BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as a part of this Complaint, the 
NFB-MI urges OCR to promptly enforce our individual and collective civil 
rights and to make the class whole as its charge.


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