Dennis and all, Thanks for the note. I talked with Ways and Means Chair John Rogers and his staff on Thursday afternoon, as well as with Frank Hynes who represents Marshfield. This line item is being reviewed over the weekend for possible override. We will continue to work on veto overrides on Monday. I am hopeful that we will restore the funds for the community services for people with disabilities. I know how far Dennis --- and the number of volunteer readers ---- stretches each dollar in order to provide the reading service. This is certainly not an area that the Governor can reasonably call "waste and inefficiency."
Debby -----Original Message----- From: Dennis Polselli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 4:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help needed I'm writing to you all for your help. The Massachusetts operates a program called the radio reading service. If you ever went by wdjm 91.3 on the dile and heard the reading of newspapers and books or programs providing information to persons blind and vicua visually impaired, that's the radio reading service. The network operates out of Marshfield and I direct the local afiliate out of Framingham State College the Disability services office. The service reads daily newspapers such as "The Tab" The Metrowest Daily News, The Natickk Bulletin and other local newspapers including The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and magazines such as Newsweek, Time Ect. The service is run at a lowcost. We observed our 25 annaversiry on June 119, 2003 For ten year the lineitem 4110-1000 was funded at 200-000 dollars and three years ago, the line item was raised to 500-000 where it stayed for three years. This past week, the governor vetoed 250-000 dollars oub of its budget, in adition, 35-000 dollars to support the infrastructure which is telephone lines konly installed this past year because the sap secondary alternate channel which was channel 44 had tas to be used for audio desecription for the blind. The MetroWest RAdio Reading Service only receives five thousand dollars from that ammount or from the total budget. Please contact the house of representatives, kour legislators and ask to please over ride the veto of line 4110-1000 for Radio Reading Service. And incidentally, if you know of any persons withprint disabilities please contact our ofice at 508-626-4000 and we can providde them with a receiver. This is an invaluable service, being blind myself I am not only a director of a radio reading service, but I'm a client Dennis ------------=_1057869044-12543-0-- ReSent-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:06:21 -0400 (EDT) ReSent-From: "Steven W. Orr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ReSent-To: Framingham Neighbors <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ReSent-Subject: Help needed ReSent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm writing to you all for your help. The Massachusetts operates a program called the radio reading service. If you ever went by wdjm 91.3 on the dile and heard the reading of newspapers and books or programs providing information to persons blind and vicua visually impaired, that's the radio reading service. The network operates out of Marshfield and I direct the local afiliate out of Framingham State College the Disability services office. The service reads daily newspapers such as "The Tab" The Metrowest Daily News, The Natickk Bulletin and other local newspapers including The Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, and magazines such as Newsweek, Time Ect. The service is run at a lowcost. We observed our 25 annaversiry on June 119, 2003 For ten year the lineitem 4110-1000 was funded at 200-000 dollars and three years ago, the line item was raised to 500-000 where it stayed for three years. This past week, the governor vetoed 250-000 dollars oub of its budget, in adition, 35-000 dollars to support the infrastructure which is telephone lines konly installed this past year because the sap secondary alternate channel which was channel 44 had tas to be used for audio desecription for the blind. The MetroWest RAdio Reading Service only receives five thousand dollars from that ammount or from the total budget. Please contact the house of representatives, kour legislators and ask to please over ride the veto of line 4110-1000 for Radio Reading Service. And incidentally, if you know of any persons withprint disabilities please contact our ofice at 508-626-4000 and we can providde them with a receiver. This is an invaluable service, being blind myself I am not only a director of a radio reading service, but I'm a client Dennis ------------=_1057869044-12543-0-- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe frambors" (the subject is ignored). To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body "unsubscribe frambors" (the subject is ignored).
