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The Tennessee Legislature is considering adding $5.5 million dollars back into the budget of the TN Division on Intellectual Disability Services. Please contact your legislator and ask them to support the effort to add $5.5 million dollars back into the DIDS Budget to help agencies like the Orange Grove Center. You can find out who your legislator is by going to the General Assembly Website - Tennessee General Assembly Website
If you would like to see the reductions slated this year in the DIDS Budget simply click here.
Another way to become educated as to what is taking place in our system is to listen in on some of the hearings that are taking place in the Tennessee General Assembly. It has become increasingly more convenient to hear exactly what our legislators are hearing and I can tell you that it is most enlightening. The state maintains an archive of recent meetings through online videos. You can simply go to these links to hear the most recent meetings in which community agency funding is being discussed:
1. http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/videowrapper/default.aspx?CommID=660000
After you go to this site, click on the following video links:
Senate_General Welfare, Health and HR 1271055600Apr 12, 2010 2:28 PM 02h 36m
Senate_General Welfare, Health and HR 1270537200Apr 6, 2010 10:30 AM 02h 58m
2. http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/videowrapper/default.aspx?CommID=850000
After you go to this site, click on the following video link
Finance,Ways, and Means 1270537200Apr 6, 2010 2:00 PM 01h 33m
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