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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you've checked the bidline
announcement recently, you may have<BR>noticed that the Anderson Building
Cafeteria, AKA the State Plate is not among the<BR>listed facilities. I
have it from a credible source that Ed Rodgers, the new Director<BR>of the
Bureau of Services for Blind Persons has ordered the facility removed
from<BR>the bidline and has turned it over to the Michigan House of
Representatives, saying<BR>that PA260 of 1978 does not apply. Were any of
you on the Elected Operators' Committee<BR>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?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>If you have factual knowledge about any of
this, please share it with all of us who care<BR>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<BR>lost, can all of the remaining State
facilities be far behind? I won't reveal my<BR>source; and no, I'm not
joking about any of this.<BR>Joe Sontag<BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>