[nfbmi-talk] current operating budget ada request

[joe harcz Comcast]

September 20, 2010

 

 

 

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI  48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

franfulton at comcast.net

810-516-5262

 

Re: ADA/504 Request for October 2009 through August, 2010 Internal Operating Budget

 

To:

 

Duncan Wyeth, DELEG ADA Coordinator

Constance Zanger, MCB Administrative Services

Melvin Farmer, FOIA DELEG

 

All,

 

I do appreciate the information sent by Mr. Farmer recently relative to the Michigan Commission for the Blind budget process meeting of the Michigan Commission for the Blind Board. That includes the belated agenda for that meeting which is attached after my signature line.

However, the internal operating budget sent to me was closed December of 2009 and was not the current operating budget in this very agenda and the one that Ms. Zanger was reading from during the meeting of August 26, 2010. Thus I am again asking for that internal operating budget in an accessible format, of course.

 

Is this was a public meeting of the MCB under the OMA with a quorum being present; and as all documents related to such meetings are required to be made available and accessible under both Title II and V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act; and as Mr. Cannon did state openly that he would make these documents accessible in a timely manner to requestors I do again invoke those statutes and rules in this request.

 

This information may be sent to me just like the other operating budget as an e-mail attachment. In addition I request that during the next month the same information is copied to the additional e-mail adress: franfulton at verizon.net.

 

I thank you for your prompt response to this inquiry and that no sea4rch will be required as Ms. Zanger clearly has the information on her computer and has already remitted it in accessible format to commissioners now almost a month ago.

 

Sincerely,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

 

Cc: Fran Fulton

Cc: MCB Commissioners

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: MCBVI

Cc: Advocates for the Blind

Cc: Michigan Protection and Advocacy Services, Inc.

Cc: RSA

 

 

 

IN SERVICE BUDGET TRAINING

For    

COMMISSION BOARD MEMBERS

201 N. Washington Square

Victor Center Building

3rd Floor, Conference Room A/B

August 26, 2010

11 a.m. – 4 p.m.

 

11 a.m.      Cash Match, facilitated by Constance Zanger, Acting Administrative Services Manager

 

Noon                   Lunch

 

1 p.m.         General Discussion of the Budget Process:  How the money comes from the Federal Checkbook and it ultimately put into M C B’s Budget, facilitated by Al Pohl, DELEG Finance Director

 

2:30 p.m.   A.      M C B Internal Operating Budget, facilitated by Constance Zanger, Acting Administrative Services Manager

                             1.      Allocation vs Authority

                             2.      Match Requirement

                             3.      Maintenance of Effort

                   B.      Budget Development

                   C.      Tracking Expenditures

D.      Discussion of October through July 

E.      Who is Watching over M C B’s Expenditures?, facilitated by Sherri Heibeck, Training Center Director