[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request of 12-29-11 - New Horizon Information from MCB Commission Meeting

Wed Jan 11 22:22:09 UTC 2012

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net) 
Cc: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) ; Farmer, Mel (LARA) ; Turney, Susan (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA) ; McNeal, Gwen (LARA) 
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:56 PM
Subject: FOIA Response to Request of 12-29-11 - New Horizon Information from MCB Commission Meeting

January 11, 2012  (Print copy sent in the US Mail, prepaid on this date)

Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

Re:  New Horizons Information at MCB Board Meeting

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

This letter is in response to your December 29, 2011, email request for copies of public records, received on January 3, 2012, by this office.  Please be informed that the Department's Michigan Commission for the Blind (MCB) is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.

In your email, you requested information/records described as per the attached copy of your email.

In order to determine the amount of non-exempt information within the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs that might be responsive to your request, a search must be undertaken for the information of which you have requested.  This information may come from various entities under the department.  For this reason, it is necessary to extend the time for response, as permitted by section 5(2)(d) of the FOIA, through January 25, 2012.

Sincerely,

Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

Michigan Commission for the Blind

FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz

January 11, 2012

Page 2 of 2

Attachment - Email Request of 12-29-11

Cc:      Patrick Cannon

            Mel Farmer

            Susan Turney

            Elsie Duell

            Leamon Jones

            Elizabeth White

From:  Cannon, Patrick (LARA)

Sent:   Monday, January 09, 2012 2:47 PM

To:       Haynes, Carla (LARA)

Subject:         FW: who works for whom here?

From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net]  

Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:01 PM 

To: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) 

Cc: Larry Posont MCB Comm.; lydia Schuck MCB Comm.; John Scott MCB Comm.; Arwood, Steve 

(LARA); nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Craig McManus RSA; Elmer Cerano MPAS 

Subject: who works for whom here?

ADA 504 Request Related to Correspondence of Director Cannon

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI  48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

Not a Freedom of Information Act Request as This Relates to an MCB Meeting

To: Patrick Cannon

Director, Michigan Commission for the Blind

Via e-mail

Dear Mr. Cannon,

I am writing expressly to get any correspondence between yourself, or any subordinates and the law firm representing New Horizons Rehabilitation Services, Inc that you used as your response to Commissioner Schuck in her inquiries related to apparent conflicts of interests, or appearances of them related to the fact that East Region Supervisor Gwen McNeal serves on New Horizons Board of Trustees and the fact that MCB, Macomb ISD 

and New Horizons was cited for "reversion to vender" in the RSA monitoring report.

Again Ms. Schuck did ask you whether the opinion that this was not a conflict of interest came from the Michigan Attorney General's office or other State of Michigan legal sources and you responded that the opinion came from New Horizon's lawyers.

This is quite clear on the recording of that meeting that has been highly circulated on the internet.

Anyway I want those correspondences in accessible format of course as I'm blind as you know and you know the format too.

I openly wonder though just who in the heck really runs outfits that are federally funded like MCB work for in this strange event. I mean does the New Horizon's private law firm offer legal advice routinely about things that relate to MCB and other State of Michigan affairs? By the way what is the name of this law firm and just who in the heck gave you the legal advice you reference on the issue?

Perhaps this should go to the State of Michigan Ethics Board?

Again I want those correspondences and again you have some explain to do sir.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: MCB Commissioners

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: S. Arwood, LARA

Cc: RSA

Carla Miller Haynes

DLARA 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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