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Tuesday, December 13, 2011


Round 1: What’s this?  After a weekend of celebrations and festivities, it’s not unusual for this soon to be 65 year old semi-cajun to be feeling achy, physically worn out, or mentally fatigued from an abrupt interruption to my ever so punctual sleep cycle and laid back retiree life style; however, it is now Tuesday and my head is still reeling punch-drunk not so much from this past Saturday morning & evening’s celebrations and festivities at the RSVL Christmas parties, but from the Friday all day anti-climactic ECM meeting. It’s as though I have been transported back in time to Mayberry RFD and I am staring into Goober’s smiling goofy face as he utters, “Surprise! Surprise!” .
How many long Sunday sermons have I endured “Don’t build your house on shifting sand but on rock“; well, it turns out those enduring sermons served me well, for as Shirley and I built a case in her Grievance letter (petition) for submission to the La. BEP Randolph-Sheppard Program Manager,  we were very careful to cross reference each allegation to a specific part of the La. Administrative Code (Chapter 5: Randolph-Sheppard Program Policy) and/or the illusive Technical Assistance & Guidance (TAG) Manual. Even so, a lot would depend on substantiating documentation to be provided by SLA RSMAs, Randolph-Sheppard Management Analysts (SLA agents - field operatives of La. Rehabilitation Services - responsible for oversight of BEP facilities in La. and BEP SLA “selected” managers). We were not surprised to receive a letter from the SLA stating that they concluded from the Informal Administrative Review that the selection process and resulting selection of a Fort Polk facility “satellite manager” was proper and in accordance with applicable policy and state law. Our point was that they did not do a good job of documentation and that a little digging into the matter at hand would reveal pertinent evidence that they either overlooked or had not acquired. From what I witnessed Friday, I would dearly love to see the current Grievance letter (petition).

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