From Lurena Mead:
Late breaking news! I had a Legislator “sighting” last week! They are starting to stir.
• Talking about Legislative “sightings” Senator Huntington, Representatives Bollier, Slattery, Wolf and Talia from northern Johnson County will be holding a forum at the Sylvester Powell Community Center at 7:00 pm on Tuesday April 20th. If you are in their districts, this would a good opportunity to advocate for individuals with DD. I’ll be there and hope to see you! One stop shopping!
• Now that the State’s April financials are in, it looks like the State will be $46.4 million dollars short in FY ‘10 (even after they made all those prior cuts). It’s kind of late to make more cuts, so many believe that they will just borrow money from the FY ’11 budget in order to make things balance. That means there’s an additional $46.4 hole to fill in an already underwhelming 2011 budget.
• The Senate Ways and Means and House Appropriations Committees will be getting back to work the week of April 19th in order to get a few things figured out before the whole Legislature returns on April 28th. They will talk cuts as well as tax increases. • I’ve attached information about InterHab’s Push Day rally which will held at the Capitol on April 28th. InterHab is a statewide resource network for individuals with disabilities and is based out of Topeka.
Your To Do list for the week:
Make plans to take your friends, families and neighbors to Topeka for InterHab’s Push Day rally on April 28th where we’ll end the “Walk a Mile In My Shoes” trek across Kansas.
I’ve ordered sunshine, so a rally on the lawn will be just to trick to make legislators sit up and take notice, as well as put a little color in your cheeks!
If you can’t open the Push Day link or need additional information, please call me. It would be grand to have hundreds of people gathering together to focus on our common cause. In this case, silence isn’t golden!
I have a feeling that the fleas will be biting!
Warm Regards and my sincere apology for sending opinion rather than fact, on my prior Update. It won’t happen again!
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