[nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?
joe harcz Comcast
joeharcz at comcast.net
Sat Jun 9 15:25:02 UTC 2012
Your resolution as follows has not been fully implemented here to date
including the final resolve clause Fred:
RESOLUTION 2011-07
CHALLENGE EXPERIENCES
WHEREAS, successful, quality rehabilitation for the blind
includes such mandatory skills as Braille, Cane Travel, Daily Living Skills,
Technology, and Manual Arts; and
WHEREAS, these skills represent a minimum, or can be considered,
core competencies for a person to become prepared to live successfully in
the world as a blind person; and
WHEREAS, in order to fully benefit from these skills each person
must have a philosophic view of blindness which encompasses these skills
plus an intrinsic belief in oneself which informs an approach to life based
on confidence and empowerment; and
WHEREAS, successful rehabilitation programs include "challenge
experiences" that require the student to aggregate and consolidate the
individual skills to accomplish a goal that challenges and stretches the
students' self-image as a blind person. Examples of such experiences
include rock climbing, water skiing, sky diving, participation in large
social events such as state fairs, Marde Gras, etc.; and
WHEREAS, the Michigan Commission for the Blind Training Center
(MCBTC), in response to student demand, created a marksmanship challenge
activity which served the ambient cultural needs of Michigan's outdoor
hunting and sports environment; and
WHEREAS, this marksmanship program was aborted in a drastic and
destructive manner brutally repressing the spontaneous self-empowerment of
blind people who were exercising their self-empowerment, thus undermining
and stunting the full possibilities of a quality rehabilitation program; and
WHEREAS, now that the misguided, mean and regressive actions to
repress the positive goals of the National Federation of the Blind as
expressed in positive and progressive rehabilitation administration have
been repudiated and shown for what they are, anti-consumer and anti-NFB; and
WHEREAS, it is now time to resume progress toward progressive,
positive and creative rehabilitation that empowers blind people and creates
an environment of encouragement and high expectation leading to personal
freedom and confidence which will therefore lead to success in vocational
and community pursuits; and
WHEREAS, the MCBTC must assume its rightful role as the
planning, organizing and motivating engine within the Michigan Commission
for the Blind rehabilitation programs;
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the
Blind of Michigan in convention assembled this 6th day of November 2011 in
the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan
that this organization demands in the strongest terms possible that the
Michigan Commission for the Blind Board take immediate and affirmative steps
to enable the MCBTC to develop signature challenge programs reflective of
the unique environment and needs in Michigan and that they reflect the
diverse interests of Michigan citizens; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board act in its December
meeting to initiate a planning process that will produce a plan for creative
and effective challenge activities to be presented to the Commission for
consideration in the March 2012 board meeting that incorporates the
philosophical and skill building requirements as cited above; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Board incorporate this planning
and implementation of an acceptable challenge program into the MCB Director's
Performance Plan for 2012, and that the Board monitor progress towards this
goal and take appropriate action if the goal is not achieved; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization demands the
reinstatement of the marksmanship class at the MCBTC.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?
> Well, Joe, have you called larry to volunteer to help? you wrote the
> resolution, can you take some responsibility to get it done?We depend on
> lots of people to do things.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 8:15 PM
> To: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] Fw: what has been done on this?
>
> another six weeks has passed. This is the will of convention assembled to
> impliment these resolutions.
>
> That ladies and gentlemen is NFB business!
>
> And it is not a personal attack to point this out.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 6:20 AM
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] what has been done on this?
>
>
> RESOLUTION 2011-01
> RESOLUTION RELATED TO PROGRAM ACCESS AND MCB
>
>
> WHEREAS, all Vocational Rehabilitation entities, including the Michigan
> Commission for the Blind, (MCB) have long ago been required to provide
> "program access" to all the facilities it uses on a daily basis and to
> hold
> hearings, meetings and events in fully accessible facilities, even to the
> point of signing assurances with the Rehabilitation Services
> Administration
> annually that it does fully comply with these long-standing obligations;
> and
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, one of those long-standing requirements was, and is to
> have raised character Braille signage mounted on every permanent room,
> nearest the latch side of each door in accordance with American with
> Disabilities Act Guidelines (3.40.1, 4, 5, and 6); and
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, all such barriers were to have been removed under the
> required ADA transition plan by no later than July 26, 1995, yet exist to
> this very day in most, if not all, facilities used by the MCB; and
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, Patrick D. Cannon was the former Chair of the United
> States Access Board which establishes the standards of the ADAAG, the
> State
> of Michigan ADA Coordinator responsible for implementation and the
> Director
> of MCB responsible for full compliance and knowingly so; and
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act are
> civil rights laws requiring affirmative action; and therefore these
> inactions by Cannon constitute not only gross dereliction of known duties
> and deliberate indifference to these civil rights laws, but also must be
> considered malicious and intentional acts of mass discrimination; and
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, members of, and indeed the entire state affiliate of
> the National Federation of the Blind of Michigan, have promoted the full
> application of these requirements repeatedly over the years along with
> documenting violations; and
>
>
>
> WHEREAS, the NFB-MI has long promoted Braille, including its
> use
>
> in the built environment, for reasons obvious to all:
>
>
>
> NOW THEREFORE, be it resolved by the National Federation of the
> Blind of Michigan in convention assembled this 6th day of November, 2011
> in
> the City of Kalamazoo, Michigan that forthwith the NFB-MI lodges a formal
> Complaint with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) in the United States
> Department of Education, along with supporting documentation, on behalf of
> all its members, and indeed all people who are blind in the State of
> Michigan, against Patrick D. Cannon, individually, and against the
> Michigan
> Commission for the Blind as an entity; and
>
>
>
> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that as a part of this Complaint, the
> NFB-MI urges OCR to promptly enforce our individual and collective civil
> rights and to make the class whole as its charge.
>
>
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