[nfbmi-talk] Fw: src training module technical assistance mcb board and director

Tue Jun 29 21:16:50 UTC 2010

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Schmidt, Barbara (AG) 
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 5:16 PM
Subject: Re: src training module technical assistance mcb board and director

Ms Schmidt,

As you advise the MCB Board in direct violation of FOIA and OMA (re: Bradlee v. Saranac County) and as you don't seem to be intimate with the federal legislation that trumps state law. Then I highly suggest that you take this training module.

Respectfully,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Schmidt, Barbara (AG) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 4:49 PM
  Subject: RE: src training module technical assistance mcb board and director

  Mr. Harcz:

  Please remove me from your contact list.

  Thank you.

  Barbara A. Schmidt
  Assistant Attorney General
  Labor Division
  Phone:  517.373.2560
  Fax:    517.335.4879

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  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 1:54 PM
  To: Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair
  Cc: Margaret Wolfe MCB, Commissioner; John Scott MCB, Commissioner; Geri. Taeckens MCB, Commissioner; Luzenski, Sue (DELEG); Schmidt, Barbara (AG); Quasarano, Thomas (AG); Lynnae Ruttledge RSA Commissioner; Craig.McManus at ed.gov; president.nfb.mi at gmail.com; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres.; Richard Clay Advocates f/t Blind
  Subject: src training module technical assistance mcb board and director

  June 22, 2010

  From: Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

  Re: SRC Training Series Training Module

  To Members Michigan Commission for the Blind board

  And to Patrick D. cannon, Director Michigan Commission for the Blind Via E-mail

  All,

  Since there has been some confusion about the roles and responsibilities of the Michigan Commission for the Blind Board I have attached a training module for State Rehabilitation Council's which have similar obligations, roles, and responsibilities under the Rehabilitation Act as does our commission. I offer this as free technical assistance that should be well heeded especially given the fact that the MCB Board had an extraordinary  mostly closed session on May 3, 2010 to discuss among other things the actual role and responsibilities of the board. Moreover, from the public record it appears that Director Cannon has some issues with the "policy making" role, the information requirements to commissioners, and indeed the general public let alone RSA in these regards. And it also appears from comments made by Lehman Jones at the most recent meeting of MCB that he seems to think the Commission Board is purely "advisory". Those were very strange comments indeed from the effective head of the Designated State Agency made to National Federation of the Blind of Michigan President Larry Posont.

  But, as the saying goes, "Actions speak louder than words."

  Please feel free to use this training module as it, indeed is available to the public unlike the activities and critical documents of MCB including its RSA monitoring and other activities.

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  Cc: Craig McManus, RSA

  Cc: Lynnae Ruttledge, Commissioner RSA

  Cc: Barbara Schmidt, Michigan Attorney General's Office

  Cc: Larry Posont National Federation of the Blind MI

  Cc: Joe Sibley, Michigan Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired

  Cc: Richard Clay, Advocates for the Blind

  Cc: To mm Masseau, Chair Michigan SILC, M PAS

  Cc: Michigan ADAPT

  Cc: Members Michigan Rehabilitation Council

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