[nfbwatlk] WSSB/WSSD & DSB

[Joanne Laurent]

Thanks Mike. That's what I guessed, but I wanted to make sure. 

Joanne Laurent 
Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist
If you can't learn it, I'm not teaching it right!
www.blindcoach.com

Highest Expectations Travel and Adaptive Skills Instruction for the Blind
P.O. Box 586 Ariel, WA 98603
(360) 231-4597 


-----Original Message-----
From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Freeman,Mike - TOSD-DITT-2
Sent: May 13, 2010 11:40 AM
To: 'nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org'
Subject: [nfbwatlk] WSSB/WSSD & DSB

Joanne:

The 2010 regular and special legislative sessions are over. The bills that
would have changed the governmental/organizational status of WSSB/WSSD and
DSB died at the end of the regular legislative session and nothing to change
this was introduced in the special session (the Governor and legislators had
enough to do to come up with a budget that almost everything else was
eclipsed).

Bottom line: WSSB/WSSD and DSB are safe for the time being. You may safely
thank those whom you deem to have helped.

As for WTBBL, we were not able to get much, if any, funding restored but at
least there will be no more cuts and the Washington State Library is
shielding WTBBL insofar as possible from the overall cut to its budget.

Considering the debacle we could have had, I think the blindness community
came out pretty well.

Just one more demonstration of the power of collective action.

Mike Freeman, President
NFB of Washington


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