[Vendorsmi] Business Enterprise Program Being Given Away

[Joe Sontag]

If you've checked the bidline announcement recently, you may have
noticed that the Anderson Building Cafeteria, AKA the State Plate is not among the
listed facilities.  I have it from a credible source that Ed Rodgers, the new Director
of the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons has ordered the facility removed from
the bidline and has turned it over to the Michigan House of Representatives, saying
that PA260 of 1978 does not apply.  Were any of you on the Elected Operators' Committee
informed that anything like this was coming?  Why is the Committee not demanding answers and holding an emergency meeting for the purpose of finding facts and taking a stand for the Program and its licensees?  Do you not realize that the most profitable facilities on State property will be the first to be taken if the EOC and those who voted for them just sit on their hands and let  the State Plate be given away to the private sector?

If you have factual knowledge about any of this, please share it with all of us who care
about the BEP, as the future of the Program depends on it.  You can reach me by replying to this message.  If the State Plate is
lost, can all of the remaining State facilities be far behind?  I won't reveal my
source; and no, I'm not joking about any of this.
Joe Sontag
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