[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request Dated 6-18-12 & Received 6-19-12 FY12 MCB Expenditures to Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan

Mon Jun 25 20:33:27 UTC 2012

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From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net) 
Cc: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA) ; Turney, Susan (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA) ; McNeal, Gwen (LARA) ; Laury-Johnson, Shawnese (LARA) 
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 4:28 PM
Subject: FOIA Response to Request Dated 6-18-12 & Received 6-19-12 FY12 MCB Expenditures to Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan

June 25, 2012

Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

Re:  Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan FY 2012 Michigan Commission for the Blind Expenditures

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

This letter is in response to your June 18, 2012, email request for copies of public records, received on June 19, 2012.  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.

You have requested information you describe as:  "I am requesting the precise amount of expenditures and documents related to the purpose of expenditures from MCB to Goodwill Industries of Southeast Michigan during FY 2012. For your convenience after my signature line you will find the combined payments to date from MRS and MCB to this sub-minimum wage entity. Just figure out what MCB's components are here. This shouldn't be difficult to do in an accessible manner which you know for me is to have this data and documents supplied in accessible electronic format."

Your request is denied as to existing, nonexempt records in the possession of this department responsive to your request pursuant to MCL 15.235, Section 5(4)(b) of the FOIA.  After a search for public records, as requested, I certify that to the best of my knowledge, information or belief, no payments were made to Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Michigan for Fiscal Year 2012 (October 1, 2011 to and including June 25, 2012) by the Michigan Commission for the Blind.

Under MCL 15.240 of the FOIA you may (1) submit a written appeal regarding the denial of any portion of your FOIA request to Mr. Steven H. Hilfinger, Director, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs: Attention, Mike Zimmer, Chief Deputy Director, Ottawa Building, 4th Floor, P.O. Box 30004, Lansing, MI 48909. Your appeal notice must include the word "appeal" and state the reason(s) for reversal of the denial(s); or (2) you may seek judicial review in circuit court within 180 days of the Department's final determination. If you prevail in such action, the court shall award reasonable attorney fees, costs, and disbursements. If the court finds the Department's actions to be arbitrary and capricious, the court, in addition to any actual or compensatory damages, award punitive damages in the amount of $500.00.

Sincerely,

Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

Michigan Commission for the Blind

Attachments: 

1.      Email of 6/18/12

cc:     Patrick Cannon

          Mel Farmer

          Susan Turney

          Elsie Duell

          Leamon Jones

          Gwen McNeal

          Shawnese Laury-Johnson

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

Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 10:32 AM 

To: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) 

Cc: Craig McManus RSA; Elmer Cerano MPAS; MARK CODY; Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Larry Posont MCB Comm.; lydia Schuck MCB Comm.; John Scott MCB Comm.; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres.; Zimmer, Mike (LARA) 

Subject: goodwill se mi request

Request Goodwill Data MCB June 18, 2012 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

Re: Sub-minim Wage and 504 Data Request

To:

Patrick D. cannon

Michigan Commission for the Blind, Director

(Via E-mail)

Dear Mr. Cannon,

I am requesting the precise amount of expenditures and documents related to the purpose of expenditures from MCB to Goodwill Industries of Southeast Michigan during FY 2012. For your convenience after my signature line you will find the combined payments to date from MRS and MCB to this sub-minimum wage entity. Just figure out what MCB's components are here. This shouldn't be difficult to do in an accessible manner which you know for me is to have this data and documents supplied in accessible electronic format.

This request is not a FOIA request, but rather one made under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Failure to promptly respond is a violation of both aforementioned civil rights laws and constitutes a wilful violation of my civil rights.

I thank you in advance for your prompt and accessible response.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: MCB Commissioners

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: MCBVI

Cc: MPAS

Cc: RSA

Cc: several

Source:

http://apps.michigan.gov/MiTransparency/Vendor/Categories?y=2012&v=GOODWILL

%20INDUSTRIES%20OF%20SOUTHEASTERN%20MICHIGAN%20INC&a=641&C

olumn=AgencyName&Direction=Ascending

Mi Transparency - Vendor Payments to a Vendor by Category

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List of 4 items

State Expenditures by Category

State Expenditures by Appropriation Unit

Vendor Payments»

Tax Expenditure Reports

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Vendor Payments to a Vendor by Category

Vendor payments to GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN 

INC made by LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS for fiscal year 2012

Click on a category description to view vendor payments made to this vendor for this 

category.

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Agency Name

Category Description

Vendor Payment Totals

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Payments to School Districts Local Units and Others

$474.00

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

$171,616.95

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Carla Miller Haynes

DLARA Michigan Commission for the Blind

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P.O. Box 30652

Lansing, MI  48909

Phone:  517/373-2063

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