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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you've checked the bidline announcement at the
time of this writing, 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?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you have factual knowledge about this, please
share it with all of us who care about the BEP, as the future of the Program
depends on it. 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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Sontag</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>