Comments on: IL Funding – Is it the chicken or the egg? http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=36 Civil Rights for people with Disabilities Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:14:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: How a bill gets one third of the way to becoming a law : The Center for Disability Rights http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=36&cpage=1#comment-146 How a bill gets one third of the way to becoming a law : The Center for Disability Rights Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:17:36 +0000 http://rochestercdr.org/wordpress/?p=19#comment-146 [...] SED is opposing our bill because there is no new appropriation with it.  When we pointed out that there doesn’t have to be an appropriation, they agreed, but didn’t change their position.  Keep in mind, this is the same SED that when there was new funding appropriated to the Independent Living network, SED said they would not give us any funding for Ontario County because we were not an established ILC.  Now we have a bill to establish an Ontario County ILC, but they won’t give us that because there in no funding.  (See also:  http://rochestercdr.org/wordpress/?p=19#more-19) [...] [...] SED is opposing our bill because there is no new appropriation with it.  When we pointed out that there doesn’t have to be an appropriation, they agreed, but didn’t change their position.  Keep in mind, this is the same SED that when there was new funding appropriated to the Independent Living network, SED said they would not give us any funding for Ontario County because we were not an established ILC.  Now we have a bill to establish an Ontario County ILC, but they won’t give us that because there in no funding.  (See also:  http://rochestercdr.org/wordpress/?p=19#more-19) [...]

]]> By: The Roving Activist’s Blog » Blog Archive » Chicken or the Egg? http://www.cdrnys.org/wordpress/?p=36&cpage=1#comment-145 The Roving Activist’s Blog » Blog Archive » Chicken or the Egg? Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:38:17 +0000 http://rochestercdr.org/wordpress/?p=19#comment-145 [...] As I said in yesterday’s post regarding the IL funding saga that we’ve been living through, Chris has been in Albany lobbying, if you will, for passage of A.10440, and S.7264. Here is a link to his post about where the opposition to these bill are coming from on the CDR Blog. [...] [...] As I said in yesterday’s post regarding the IL funding saga that we’ve been living through, Chris has been in Albany lobbying, if you will, for passage of A.10440, and S.7264. Here is a link to his post about where the opposition to these bill are coming from on the CDR Blog. [...]

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