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Committee
Current Committee Members:
6
Currently
in it's infancy is the C.I D2W committee. It's purpose is advisory,
voting to make decisional recommendations and to make others part of
the organization. It is currently an experiment to understand how an
organization with a board of directors of people with disabilities,
maybe some relevant professionals and some parents or guardians might function
like.
The committee participants are not listed and are to remain unlisted
for privacy reasons for a time. As the organization is somewhat new
subjecting participants to adversity might be to harsh. Therefore as
a social trust builds with acceptance more may be interested in
revealing themselves openly.
Employee Infrastructure
1. Nathan Young (ME), project leader.
2. C.I Committee, advisory. Every employee outsourced or otherwise
that is a D2W employee has a right to be on the committee. D2W
individual reseller, container labeler, owner or delivery person.
3. other, current & upcoming employment facilitations;
a.) candle container labeling.
b.) accountancy & billing.
c.) home and office delivery - upcoming
d.) individual resellers.
e.) pouring candles - I am doing this currently and am to begin
trial training of others by October of 08. Secondary equipment and
supplies are required.
Recent
Committee Votes:
1.
(Vote 2/0) For reasons of buy power sustainment to keep material costs down for
the candles a vote was made with concern. It was voted to cut hours
offered to others with disabilities, continue for me not to make a
paycheck and in order to buy larger quantities of supplies at a time
with private freight services. This drastically saves on costs and
increases profits thus opportunity over time. The required revolving
capital is
$3,500 - $4,500
for supplies and an additional
$2,000
for a secured credit line to establish good business credit for C.I.
2. (Vote 2/0) It was voted that no lower
functioning individual working for C.I on the Fortuna Candles
project could be photographed for display anywhere for marketing of
candles, recorded in
audio for marketing of candles or put on display selling candles at
events. This includes people with mental retardations but not high
functioning individuals with a form of autism for instance.
Broadened individual circumstances apply and future votes will have
to occur for clarifications. Namely fundamental freedoms and the
functionability level of what actually denotes a disqualification.
For instance one whom cannot function enough to understand the idea
of selling candles and one whom someone else sells candles for
because he or she is unable will likely disqualify under this vote.
Yet debate in whether there is still a qualifying right to resell
thus market the special candles for an individual for instance
because he or she is not provided enough government funding for
quality of life services is debatable. Yet the intended purpose is
employment and not a quality of life subsidy outside of an official
fundraiser.
Overtime I am sure it
will become even more confusing and in order to protect against
exploitations of the candle products strict controls have to be put
in place. The point on the whole matter is that higher functioning
people with disabilities do not profit from the display of lower
functioning people whom cannot understand and choose. Also low
functioning individuals that cannot understand the tasks of selling
candles at events, that they would sit and act as a symbolic
advertisement despite it being a symbolic freedom of speech which is
protected, that internal ethics override this. There is however a
wide-range of higher functioning individuals whom qualify and it's
the purpose of the company to employ and not disallow opportunity.
Nathan Young
Autism Self-Advocate
Founder |