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May 19, 2014 (Regular Meeting) Page 2012 contacted Tricia Baker the Civil Rights Officer for Cabarrus County and ask her for help in filing a complaint against CCP as they had intentionally withheld the fact that I had a Brain Tumor from me in order to keep from spending money on my treatment and had also prevented me from communicating with the Board of Directors for CCP. Mrs. Baker then informed me that she was on the Board of Directors for CCP and that James Cooke a Doctor at CMC Northeast was now the acting Director as Cindy Oakes had left that position, she gave me his contact information and then washed her hands of the whole matter. Dr. Cooke took one phone call with me and after telling me that he would look into the matter sent me an email which stated that I had been terminated for being too aggressive, which was a different excuse than the original letter of termination I had received from CCP Operations Manager Gerald Mack, Dr. Cooke then refused to investigate any further. In the first letter of termination I had received from CCP their excuse was that I had not followed a plan of action but did not state what plan of action that was, and even after numerous emails to them requesting this information which was ignored including a letter I sent to the Board of Directors via an email to Cindy Oakes asking for that Board to get involved. It is quite evident by the actions of Tricia Baker that she was given a position on the Board of directors for the Community Care Program of Southern Piedmont because she was in charge of the Adult Medicaid Program for DSS, and could therefore restrict the flow of applicants to CCP thus limiting the amount of people that organization would have to spend money on from that five million dollar grant the State of North Carolina gives them each year. Mrs. Baker could not have gotten away with this as long as she did without Ben Rose the Director of the Cabarrus County Department of social Services having both known of and being agreeable to her denying the Civil Rights of DSS clients in order to further her career prospects after leaving county employment. It is also quite evident that Mrs. Baker can no longer be the Civil Rights Officer for Cabarrus County as she is not willing to file any Civil Rights Violations against the Community Care Program of Southern Piedmont as long as she is on the Board of Directors for that organization. Mrs. Baker is also not qualified to be in charge of the Adult Medicaid Services at DSS because during a meeting I had with her and Mr. Rose in August of 2012 she did not know nor did she relate to me that I could have gone on Medicaid for six months without applying for Disability. Pad I been informed of this fact by anyone at DSS I would have applied for Medicaid in early March of 2012 and would have learned of my Brain Tumor when it was still small enough to have better restricted its growth, instead of having to wait one year after it was diagnosed before being informed. This Tumor is now very large and painful and has not responded well to medical treatment, I have spent the last year living in my car often during severe weather so I could afford to pay half of my monthly income or more for medication that might reduce the size of this Tumor and can no longer afford to do so. Some of these problems were first brought to the attention of the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners in August of 2012 but under the guidance of Chairman Poole were completely ignored, the only consolation I have is that Cabarrus County residents will no longer have to endure hostile discrimination and Bigotry from county employees working at DSS whenever they seek to get on a charity care program such as CCP. It is now my most earnest wish that the conservative pro American members of this Board of Commissioners will take a good look at the Community Care Program of Southern Piedmont which was created strictly to scam tax dollars from the State of North Carolina, and is now hoping to control the treatment of Medicaid patients throughout North Carolina. I ask that you do this in the hopes of shutting that corrupt organization down so it might be replaced by a better one. Sincerely Robert Simmons The following was included and attached to his statement: CCP Effective today DSS will no longer be, able to determine eligibility for the CCP Program (Community Care Plan) . All new