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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