[nfbmi-talk] Fw: foia request draft minutes and recording august 27 mcb meeting

[joe harcz Comcast]

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From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (DELEG) 
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Subject: Re: foia request draft minutes and recording august 27 mcb meeting


It better be sooner...
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  From: Haynes, Carla (DELEG) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Farmer, Mel (DELEG) ; Cannon, Patrick (DELEG) ; Luzenski, Sue (DELEG) ; Zanger, Connie (DELEG) ; Turney, Susan (DELEG) 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:53 PM
  Subject: RE: foia request draft minutes and recording august 27 mcb meeting


  September 8, 2010

   

  Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI  48458

   

  Re:  FOIA Request for Draft Minutes and Recordings

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

   

  This notice is in response to your August 31, 2010 request to the Michigan Commission for the Blind (MCB) for copies of records under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq., which you describe as:

   

  "the draft minutes of the August 27, 2010, MCB quarterly board meeting and the mp3 recordings on CD, or, as you did last time on a thumb drive of the August 28, 2010, meeting".

   

  In order to determine the existence of any nonexempt information/records within the Michigan Commission for the Blind that might be responsive to your request (the draft minutes are not completed at this point in time) and as to the recording of this meeting, a search and examination must be undertaken.  For this reason, it is necessary to extend the time for response, as permitted by section 5(2)(d) of the FOIA, through September 21, 2010, or sooner.

   

  Sincerely,

   

   

   

  Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

  Michigan Commission for the Blind

   

  cc:     Mel Farmer

   

   

  Carla Miller Haynes

  DELEG Michigan Commission for the Blind

  201 N. Washington Sq., 2nd Floor

  P.O. Box 30652

  Lansing, MI  48909

  Phone:  517/373-2063

  FAX: 517/335-5140

   

  www.michigan.gov/mcb


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  From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 9:10 AM
  To: Haynes, Carla (DELEG)
  Cc: Jo Anne Pilarski MCB, Chair; Michael Geno MCB Vice-Chair; Geri Taeckens; John Scott MCB, Commissioner; Margaret Wolfe MCB, Commissioner; Quasarano, Thomas (AG); mike.cox at michigan.gov; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres.
  Subject: foia request draft minutes and recording august 27 mcb meeting

   

  FOIA FOIA FOIA

   

   

  August 31, 2010

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI  48458

   

  E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

   

  Re: FOIA/OMA Requests Draft Minutes and Recordings

   

  Carla Haynes, Michigan Commission for the Blind, FOIA Officer

  (via e-mail)

   

  Dear Ms. Haynes,

   

  I am writing today to request pursuant to obligations under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act and the Michigan Open Meetings Act the draft minutes of the August27, 2010 MCB quarterly board meeting. They may simply be sent, as in the past to my e-mail listed above as a Word attachment.

   

  Again in the interest of open government and to meet the spirit of the Open Meetings Act I am puzzled as to why the draft minutes are not routinely posted to MCB's web site as I've suggested many times before. I would not have to bother you or staff with these requests if that sort of transparency took place. 

  In addition, as in the past I am requesting that you send me the mp3 recordings on CD or, as you did last time on a thumb drive of the August 28, 2010 meeting.  in MCB's action plans and in other literature the archiving of these recordings was supposed to have been implemented on MCB's web site years ago. At least that was the professed promise of the Commission. I would not have to bother you with these requests if the archiving of these files was actually implemented for I would just access them online or download them for later review.

   

  Regardless, I thank you for your past prompt responses to these requests and thank you in advance for your prompt response to this one.

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  Cc: MCB Commissioners

  Cc: T. Quasarano, Michigan Attorney General's Office

  Cc: Michael Cox, Michigan Attorney General