WHEREAS, the Governor's Office for the Coordination of Services to the Handicapped is scheduled for a sunset hearing before the 1984 Maryland Legislature;
AND WHEREAS, this office has been recognized by the blind of the State of Maryland and particularly by the National Federation of the Blind of Maryland as more of a hindrance to new and progressive programs of services to the blind than a help in making those services available;
AND WHEREAS, this office has further sought to defeat legislation which would have consolidated services for the blind and has thereby insured that blind Marylanders are doomed for a time to live with services which at best are spotty and inadequate but are often positively detrimental;
AND WHEREAS, in the name of coordinating services to the handicapped, this office has created confusion and has actually distributed misleading information about those services which were available;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by The National Federation of the Blind of Maryland in Convention assembled this 15th day of October, 1983 in Gaithersburg, Maryland that the organized blind of the State of Maryland call upon the Legislature of Maryland to scrutinize with thoroughness the work of the Governor's Office for Coordination of Services to the Handicapped and recognize that this office has been more of a hindrance to Maryland blind citizens than a help;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call upon the Legislature of the State of Maryland to abolish the Office for the Coordination of Services to the Handicapped.