From: BSomsonUAW@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:00 PM
To: rule-comments@sec.gov
Subject: Re: File No. S7-36-02



SEC Secretary Mr. Jonathan G. Katz
450 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20549

Dear SEC Secretary Mr. Jonathan G. Katz,

Re: File No. S7-36-02 

Dear Secretary Katz: 

I write to express my strong support for the SEC's
proposed rule, S7-36-02, to require mutual funds to
disclose their proxy voting policies and decisions.
 

I am a mutual fund investor and I care how the funds
in which I am invested vote. I am invested in Fidelity
Investments and want Fidelity to vote its proxies to
protect and promote shareholder interest and to disclose
how they are voting shares.  

Requiring mutual funds to disclose their proxy votes
in an easily accessible format is the only way that
investors can ensure that Fidelity and other mutual
fund companies exercise their proxy voting authority
to promote our interests rather than to boost their
own bottom line. 

I urge the SEC to adopt its proposed rule. 



Sincerely,

Barbara Somson
3915 McKinley Street, NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20015