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« on: November 18, 2005, 02:08:00 AM »
I had that problem, people wanting money for stuff. I heard a few years back Wes had phone lists, like parent phone lists. I was looking for an intake application form. Can it truly be that amongst all the smuggled files, nobody ever found that thing we signed?
The thing is, I don't have a bad thing to say about Wes, but if he is getting tired and his files are getting lost and whatnot, if files are with different people, and no one knows who has what, this is the time to put it aright, we survivors have enough pain with lost files and lost memories. I been hearing rumors about someone has this, someone has that, we got fire plans for Cincinnati, parent lists for Springfield, Texas files that might or might not have ever been gotten. We got rumors flying about who has what and how much they are charging and whether or not they have any organizational system and can even find what you need to send it to you.
I will tell you all what, that is for real, your loss of your solid paper evidences. I got my hospital files and it was solid evidence in my hand. We are living in a material world, we got hands and eyes. Evidence is evidence, and paper records go a lot farther in court as well as in your own mind and circumstances.
I move to create a trust, and we buy ourselves an office that is open and staffed. Those files are ours. It will take some doing to get this together. We need money backers. There's a lot more this office could do, too. Tell you what, I will scout out some space and get back to you with the rent and all that. We have people close enough to the location of the files to box them and mail them to a created non-profit overseen trust. I can put up a volunteer or two on this end. We need computer equipment, but between everybody who reads this board and was really wanting to upgrade their scanner and donate the old one to us and so on, this should not be a big money outlay. The office itself should be on neutral, signed territory. So really, we just need rent and telephone and internet, we can steal pens from around town and stuff. j/k on that last bit. couldn't help myself.
Everyone knows this needs doing. Everyone knows that I am obsessive enough to do it. All in favor say aye and put up your pledge of $5 - $100 a month. This will be oversighted and on the up and up.
As for personal files on individuals, okay, this is a job, those files should be treated a certain way, with integrity, sealed, and the person whose file it is gets it mailed to them and if they choose after they see it they can mail back a copy for the historical record.
Certainly there will be many particulars to discuss.