Action needed

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Advocates for the Rights of People with Disabilities,
Sisters and Brothers:
As if a test of our continued involvement, the Governor's Budget 
Recommendation, House I, once again seeks to move the Architectural 
Access Board (AAB) out of the Executive Office of Public Safety to a 
lesser standing department.  
We the advocates for the people with disabilities forced the move of the 
AAB into it's present level of importance in 1986 because it directly 
affects our civil right to public access.  
If the AAB becomes buried in a departmental level then so may its 
authority, subject to the approval of others over it.
We need you to contact with haste the following:
- Kathleen O'Toole, Secretary of Public Safety
  One Ashburton Place, 21st Floor, Boston, MA  02108
- Governor William Weld
  State House, Boston, MA  02133
- Representative Paul Caron, Chairman
  Public Safety Committee
  State House, Boston, MA  02133 
  (617)722-2230
Don't forget your own Representative!  Tell them to keep the 
Architectural Access Board as a separate agency with all the powers it 
presently has (Line Item 8500 - 0100 of the budget).  
It is of the utmost importance that the AAB remain it's own agency with 
adequate funding in order to provide the greatest access and 
independence to people with disabilities in Massachusetts.
On behalf of the people, Thank you.