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• Governor Gregoire's 2010 DD Budget Proposal
  Dec 2009 Budget
  
• Governor Gregoire's Letter to the Legislature
  January 2010
  Outlines "Book 2" Budget with "Buy-backs" - services & programs that may be saved from the chopping block if taxes are imposed or additional revenue is found/generated

The message we need to give our Legislators is this...
Support Community Services, where WE ALL BELONG!

Here are the LOCAL COUNTY & COMMUNITY cuts from the Governor’s proposed budget that are going to happen unless “we the people” act NOW:

·        Eliminate Basic Health Plan

·        Suspend adult dental services  

·        Suspend podiatry services  

·        Suspend adult hearing services  

·        Suspend adult vision services  

·        Suspend reimbursement school based services (Physical, Occupational, & Speech Therapy) $13.2 million (Schools will still have to provide these services according to the IDEA; but will have to find funding somewhere else…?!)

·        Suspend Physical/Occupational/Speech Therapy 

·        Suspend Medicare Part D co-pay  

·        Revise Individual and Family Support (Any family making over $42,000 per year will be eliminated.)

·        Eliminate State Only Employment/Day Services for people with disabilities

·        Reduce County Employment Contracts by another 3%

·        Reduce Jobs at 21 Program by 75% in 2010, suspend by July 1, 2010 

·        Community Contract Reductions (Parent to Parent funding, technical assistance to self-advocates, families, senior caregivers, residential providers, employers reduced or eliminated)

·        Reduce agency administrative rate by another 5%

·        Eliminate add-on hours for special meal prep or incontinence if assistance is available from family or friends 

·        Housekeeping and laundry reduction an average of 6 hours per month for 7,100 in-home care clients 

·        Change eligibility levels for Medicaid Personal Care to nursing facility level of care, eliminate approximately 700 in-home & residential clients  

Where do WE live, work & play? IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITIES – where WE ALL BELONG!!!

Who is the SAFETY NET?!  Who is taking care of our children, elderly and people with disabilities?
WE ARE! (LOCAL COMMUNITIES & FAMILIES)