[nfbmi-talk] Fw: YMCA offer declined

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Sontag" <suncat0 at gmail.com>
To: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 1:33 PM
Subject: Fw: YMCA offer declined


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Joe Sontag" <suncat0 at gmail.com>
> To: "Zanger, Connie (LARA)" <zangerc at michigan.gov>
> Cc: "Lucy Edmonds" <EdmondsL2 at michigan.gov>; "James Hull" 
> <hullj at michigan.gov>; "Lydia Schuck" <laschuck at juno.com>; "John Scott" 
> <jcscott at sbcglobal.net>; <president.nfb.mi at gmail.com>; "Patrick Cannon" 
> <CannonP at michigan.gov>
> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 03:31
> Subject: Re: YMCA offer declined
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>>    Connie, if you truly did not evaluate my bid on the YMCA facility, why 
>> did you then call me early on the afternoon of September 20, 2011 and 
>> provide me with the information that you did, and why did you say that, 
>> in response to my question concerning the possibility that Marge Stein, 
>> the sighted temporary operator of the facility in question for the past 
>> year or more could provide any current financial information, you said 
>> that any information shie might provide could not be trusted?  In short, 
>> why did you bother calling me if you were not offering me the facility on 
>> which I did place a valid bid?
>> Please be advised that, as much as you, James Hull and Pat Cannon have 
>> tried to push me out of the BEP, I and other interested parties are only 
>> now getting started on exposing the truth  about what has been going on 
>> here in Michigan's BEP.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Joe Sontag
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Zanger, Connie (LARA)" <zangerc at michigan.gov>
>> To: "'Joe Sontag'" <suncat0 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "Edmonds, Lucy (LARA)" <edmondsl2 at michigan.gov>; "Hull, James (LARA)" 
>> <hullj at michigan.gov>; "Duthie, Patrick (LARA)" <DuthieP at michigan.gov>
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 13:41
>> Subject: RE: YMCA offer declined
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>> Hello, Joe;
>>
>> I appreciate your careful examination of the available financial data, 
>> and your attempts to reach Y M C A building management. This is exactly 
>> the way an operator should consider a new opportunity.  I am always 
>> saddened when an operator doesn't follow your model and take the time to 
>> do it.
>>
>> While we did discuss the Y M C A this past Tuesday afternoon, your bid on 
>> the facility has not yet been evaluated.  It has not yet been evaluated 
>> based on your request for further research into your operator selection 
>> system points, the findings of the research Lucy and I conducted last 
>> week, and generation of your updated operator selection system points.
>>
>> Based on your message today (and presuming you have positive points), I 
>> will not offer the facility to you when the data is finally generated 
>> (hopefully today).  We will announce you points Tuesday as well as 
>> announce you declined the facility.  In the next day or two, pending 
>> generation of your updated operator selection system points, we will 
>> forward those to you.  If you are in disagreement, please let me know.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Constance Zanger
>> Business Enterprise Program Manager
>> Michigan Commission for the Blind
>> 517/335.3639
>> 517/335.5140 (facsimile)
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe Sontag [mailto:suncat0 at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 12:14 PM
>> To: Zanger, Connie (LARA)
>> Cc: Edmonds, Lucy (LARA); Hull, James (LARA); Cannon, Patrick (LARA); NFB 
>> of Michigan Vendors List; NFB of Michigan List
>> Subject: YMCA offer declined
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>> After examining carefully all available financial data and after having 
>> no success in reaching building management, I can only
>> conclude that the YMCA facility cannot be run profitably and properly 
>> with respect to the rules of the program, as well as
>> applicable State and Federal laws; and so I must decline the offer at 
>> this time.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Joe Sontag
>>
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