Dear Blind Californian editor:

I believe that the CCB Board of Directors vote to withdraw the charter of the Association for Multicultural Concerns (AMC) a long time affiliate of CCB,
at a late March 2016 Board meeting, did not treat AMC as being a member of the CCB family.

Originally, at the October 2015 CCB convention, when withdrawal of the AMC charter was requested by the credentials chair, the reason for taking action
was that the AMC roster listed names of CCB members who were no longer members or were deceased. Subsequently, at a phone CCB board meeting, the reason
for revoking the AMC charter was changed, and the new basis for the withdrawal was that several AMC members were listed on the roster as having a mailing
address that was not a home mailing address. The CCB Board established a committee to investigate the operation of AMC.

At the late March CCB phone Board meeting, the committee reported its findings and recommended that the CCB Board withdraw the AMC charter. By way of an
email message prior to the late March Board phone meeting, I brought to the Board's attention that some members in two other chapters listed their home
addresses as post office boxes, which was no different than what some members of AMC did by listing the same address. Nonetheless, the CCB Board revoked
the AMC charter based on its finding that AMC had not submitted a valid roster or paid dues to CCB in three years, which violated the CCB constitution.
No explanation was given for changing the basis for revoking the AMC charter to a third and different reason. When it was pointed out that AMC had submitted
its roster and dues payment which was accepted by CCB during the last three years, a member of the Board said that the roster and dues were accepted due
to "administrative error".

By repeatedly changing the reason for withdrawing the AMC charter, the CCB Board demonstrated that the objective of the CCB Board was to remove AMC from
CCB and not to work with the AMC leadership. So that leaves the obvious question unanswered that is; "Why was the AMC charter revoked?"

Very truly yours
Charles D. Nabarrete
President, American Association of Visually Impaired Attorneys