[nfbmi-talk] bsbp peckham questions and info

Sat Oct 25 15:38:00 UTC 2014

I am not a fan of peckham. But, if BSBP continues to place sighted operators in facilities that are mandated under PA 260 for the blind and we the blind don't fight for our rights to operate them. Then we shouldn't hold our brothers and sister with other disabilities back from a job.

The BEP has been corrupt for as long as I can remember. It has discriminated against some great people. It has created an environment where the blind fight amongst each other and not for each other. BEP staff and operators have "used" their fellow blind "friends" to gain What I ask. A broken system for future generations and few more pennies in their pocket. 

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Perhaps the payments are related to the future takeover of BEP by Peckham.
Sounds like a great marriage in rehabilitation.  After all, as pointed out
below both Peckham and BEP discriminate against blind persons in
rehabilitation services, employment, and subminimum wage employment, as
demonstrated by the current posted BEP employment opportunities, more than
10 percent of the entire BS4BP Business Enterprise Program, are subminimum
wage, less than minum wage, for a required 50 hour business week, not
including shopping weekly for the business.

Why not open up the BEP to persons with disabilities?  Peckham certainly
cannot do any worse than BS4BP in serving persons with disabilities.  At
least Peckham provides good supported employment srvices, job coaching for
on-the-job training, retention of employment services, and support personnel
that actually show up at, and meaningfully interact with clients and
employers.  Peckham also provides necessary and appropriate equipment and
supports to their clients and employment-placed clients, except for blind
persons of record.  That is better than BS4BP BEP, who will not even invest
in talking cash registers credit card readers, talking UPC readers for
inventory control, and Braille note for doing business  successfully, as a
blind business operator and their blind employees.  Yet BS4BP BEP expects a
printed signed and notarized inventory from their blind operators.  And
there is no meaningful advocate, since the EOC is neutered and bought off.
To Give Peckham the BEP perhaps will replace sighted vending facilities with
persons with disabilities, and the necessary and appropriate supports and
equipment for business success.  Since BEP simply does not serve blind
persons with meaningful employment.  I support the BEP expansion to other
persons with disabilities.  Perhaps we will see much needed support of our
nation's disabled war veterans, rather than sighted family members, friends,
and intimate relationships of agency staff and blind operators.  Just watch
what the BEP future holds, especially after the November re-election of the
Snyder administration.  

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Subject: [nfbmi-talk] bsbp peckham questions and info

October 24 2010 BSBP Peckham Questions

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

810-516-5262

Edward F. Rodgers, IIDirector (Mich.) Bureau Services to Blind Persons

(Via e-mail)

Dear Mr. Rodgers,

I am writing you today to inquire specifically what the payments to Peckham
Vocational Industries from BSBP (see ref. after signature line) were for. It
is a very simple question sir.

Moreover, I wish to inform you in case you didn't know it that Peckham has a
track record documented in the public  domain of paying people with
disabilities sub-minimum wages and employing them in segregated work
settings. Moreover, again in documented fashion Peckham has discriminated
against blind people in its varius programs and services by not supplying
them with required reasonable accommodations and even has discriminatory
hiring practices  against people who are blind.

Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended one recipient
of federal funds (BSBP)may not contract with a violator of 504 (Peckham).

I've sent you statute and regulations in those regards in the past so you've
been informed of obligations in these regards.

I thank you in advance for your prompt and accessible response to this
inquiry.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: RSA

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: MPAS/CAP

Cc: MCRS

Cc: MI SILC

Attachment:

Source:

http://media.state.mi.us/MiTransparency/Vendor/Warrants?y=2014&v=PECKHAM%20V
OCATIONAL%20INDUSTRIES%20INC&a=641&g=Contractual%20Services%20Supplies%20and
%20Materials&Column=WarrantDate&Direction=Descending

Payments to PECKHAM VOCATIONAL INDUSTRIES INC by LICENSING AND REGULATORY
AFFAIRS for fiscal year 2014

Table with 4 columns and 20 rows

Agency Name

Category Description

Warrant Date

Payments Total

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

10/15/2014

$2,202.00

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

9/26/2014

$5,159.76

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

9/23/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

9/15/2014

$4,868.90

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

9/9/2014

$250.00

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

8/13/2014

$4,990.76

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

7/9/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

6/19/2014

$3,090.00

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

6/10/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

5/12/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

4/21/2014

$1,735.44

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

4/14/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

4/11/2014

$620.00

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

3/20/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

2/20/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

1/28/2014

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

1/22/2014

$3,419.76

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

12/18/2013

$1,022.48

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

11/18/2013

$2,044.96
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