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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR: #000000">Rhonda
Hutson<BR>918-774-3213 Cell<BR><A
href="mailto:rhondahutson3@gmail.com">rhondahutson3@gmail.com</A><BR></DIV>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">House Bill
3023
By: Pfeiffer and Hickman</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">relating to the State Capitol
Building; amending 7 O.S. 2011, Section 73, which relates to vending facilities;
providing exception for areas of the State Capitol Building; and providing an
effective date.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The last time a bill like this
was introduced, the vote was scheduled on Disability Awareness day by Hickman.
This was a total humiliation to the blind community. Exposed by the press, it
was defeated.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Issues:</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">By making the Capital another
exclusion for our managers, it would promote more agencies to be
exempt.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Many offices over the years
have moved out of the Capital reducing the amount of traffic at the Capitol
during the months that the legislature is not in session reducing profit
margins for our managers.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Free food is welcomed at the
Capital. Companies are allowed to bring in free food to the staff at the
Capital reducing profitability at the Capital.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Our managers are not
contacted by any staff to cater activities at the Capital including Disability
Awareness Day.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">We have been refused the
Coffee Service that the Capital has for its
staff.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></LI></OL>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The unwillingness of the
Capital to work with our managers has been a challenge. We feel that our
presence is very important to our representatives so that they will not forget
that our program is a very important one. It provides us with a living, we pay
local, state and federal taxes, we employ people in our communities and we pay a
certain percentage back to our agency; one of the few programs in our state that
does this.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">HOUSE BILL 2745 By: Conor
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This bill would not only hurt
the small blind business owner or manager but all small businesses in
general.</FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sanitation. Due to unwashed
cans and bottles, storing of these products would encourage ants, rodents and
other such critters thriving on the sugar content of most products. A business
would need a staff member to wash out the cans and bottles to keep this from
happening. This would be very time consuming for the business owner or manager
to have to do this for the public. This would increase cost for the business
and could propose a problem with small profit margins that would put them “out
of business”.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cost. Money would have to be
kept on hand to refund the refund of the cans regardless of where they were
bought. This could put a burden on the business between payments from the
distributor. This too could put a business “out of
business”.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The cost of the recycling
process will add to the cost of the product. Our customers are already
grumbling about the cost of products and there is a limit to what they are
willing to spend. There is a tolerance level. Once this tolerance level is not
met, they refuse to buy. This could put a business “out of
business”.</FONT></FONT></SPAN>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Small business may not have
the capacity for storing the cans and bottles between pickups. Many businesses
utilize every inch of their space for products and cannot spare any space for
this kind of storage. It would create a total nightmare out of trying to
comply with this law. With limited space, a business would have to decide what
product space they would have to give up to comply with this law. This could
put a business “out of business”.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></LI></OL>
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face="Arial Black"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Conclusion: Many cities already
have recycling centers and people are encouraged to recycle. We should not be
forced to do so. The consumer should be free to
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