GOVERNOR'S SPECIAL COMMITTEES


Address: Department of Development, P.O. Box 7970, Madison 53707.
Telephone: (608) 266-1480.
  Governor Earl established the coordinating committee in Executive Order
48 on March 19,
1984 and Governor Thompson recreated it in Executive Order 1, January 21,
1987. The Gover-
nor gave the committee the responsibility for carrying out the terms of an
agreement that estab-
lished a relationship based on friendship between Wisconsin and Heilongjiang
Province of the
People's Republic of China, signed by Governor Lee S. Dreyfus and Heilongjiang
Governor
Chen Lei on October 18, 1982. The agreement stipulates that the two will
"promote cooperation
and technological exchanges" and "exchange sports, cultural groups
and tourists". The com-
mittee is charged with working with state agencies to facilitate implementation
of the agreement.
  The committee hosted a delegation from Heilongjiang Province in January
1985, and a 3-
member working group in December 1986.



MISCELLANEOUS COMMITTEES AND ORGANIZATIONS TO WHICH THE GOVER-
  NOR MAKES APPOINTMENTS


                           Coalition for Advocacy, Wisconsin
Members: MAURICE RICE, president; TERRY TosKE, vice president; LILA KELLY,
secretary; MIKE
  ST. JOHN, treasurer; BETTY BANKS, PATTY BOND, JIM DERoss, JUDY FELL, PATRICK
IRICK,
  KENT KOPPELMAN, PETER MCKEEVER, DAN REMICK, HARRIET SHETLER, MITZI SHOGREN,
  GEORGE SWAMP.
Executive Director: MR. LYNN BREEDLOVE.
Address: 16 North Carroll Street, Suite 400, Madison 53703.
Telephone: (608) 251-9600.
  The coalition is a private, nonprofit corporation which was designated
by Executive Order 44,
August 1, 1977, to comply with the requirements of the federal Developmentally
Disabled Assis-
tance and Bill of Rights Act (P.L. 94-103). The mission of WCA is to protect
and advocate the
legal and human rights of persons with developmental disabilities and persons
with long-term
mental illness in Wisconsin. The coalition possesses the authority to utilize
all administrative,
legal and other appropriate remedies to provide for the protection of these
rights. Its board of
directors was initially appointed by the Governor, but subsequent members
are appointed by the
board.
  The organization is involved in various forms of advocacy: Supporting Local
Citizen Advocacy
Programs - one-to-one relationships which develop between volunteer advocates
and persons
with developmental disabilities; Systems Advocacy - organized efforts at
the state and local level
to bring about progressive change in the service system for the benefit of
people with disabilities;
and Individual Legal Advocacy - advocacy by WCA attorneys representing people
with devel-
opmental disabilities and people with mental illness and their families in
situations which require
specialized knowledge of laws, regulations and constitutional rights.

                           Humanities Committee, Wisconsin
Members: DEETTE BEILFUSS, PATRICIA J. COCHRAN, JOYCE FINUCAN, JANE LATHROP
(appointed
  by the Governor).
Executive Director: PATRICIA C. ANDERSON; Assistant Directors: MARK LUNDQUIST,
BARBARA
  Mo"Roi.
Address: 716 Langdon Street, Madison 53706.
Telephone: (608) 262-0706.
  The Wisconsin Humanities Committee was established in 1972 under the provisions
of Public
Law 89-209 and is an independent, nonprofit organization. The committee was
originally ap-
pointed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, but subsequent members
are appointed


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