[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Year End Operating Budget
joe harcz Comcast
joeharcz at comcast.net
Tue Oct 29 20:53:34 UTC 2013
More insanity from BS for Blind Persons.
The only thing they will listen to will be lawsuits and suits for damages too!
----- Original Message -----
From: Haynes, Carla (LARA)
To: joe harcz Comcast
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA)
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 4:50 PM
Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Year End Operating Budget
October 29, 2013
Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net
1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
Mt. Morris, MI 48458
Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on the Year End Operating Budget for BSBP
Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:
This email is in response to your October 22, 2013, email requests for information, received by this office on October 23, 2013. Please be advised that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons is processing these requests under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.
You have requested information as described in your email (also included below) as:
"I am writing you today to receive the year end operating budget for BSBP. At this time I'm asking for no more than the illustration from MCB after my signature line."
In order to determine the extent of the research time, the size and number of records of nonexempt information within BSBP responsive to your request, a search 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 November 12, 2013, for your request.
If it is determined that there is a cost involved in the processing of this request, you will be sent an email which will include an invoice outlining
FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.
October 29, 2013
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that cost (before or no later than November 12, 2013). This email may either request a deposit (if the cost is over $50.00) or request payment of the total cost if the amount is under $50.00.
Please note that nothing within the federal American with Disabilities Act (ADA ), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA), as amended, or the state's FOIA (MCL 15.231 et seq.) requires a public body to process FOIA requests free of charge. Further, while the ADA and Section 504 of the RA may mandate that, upon request, material be produced in an accessible format without charge, neither the ADA or Section 504 of the RA preclude a public body from charging costs under the state's FOIA. Thusly, please note that no labor fee charges have been, or will be, assessed to convert existing, nonexempt public records responsive to your requests into an accessible format to forward to you.
Sincerely,
Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator
Bureau of Services for Blind Persons
Attachment: Email Request for Information
cc: Edward F. Rodgers II
Sue Luzenski
Mike Pemble
Katie Belknap
Elsie Duell
From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 2:30 PM
To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA)
Cc: Zimmer, Mike (LARA); nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; BSBPcommissioners
Subject: simple year end operating budget request
October 22 2013 BSBP Year End Operating Budget
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
Mt. Morris, MI 48458
joeharcz at comcast.net
810-516-5262
To: Edward Rodgers, Director
Bureau of Services for Blind Persons
Dear Mr. Rodgers,
I am writing you today to receive the year end operating budget for BSBP. At this time I'm asking for no more than the illustration from MCB after my signature line.
Of course I expect no fee or FOIA garbage for this simple request for information related to public expenditures of mostly federal funds.
I also request it via simple e-mail and in addition I request that this information as well as related information like the state plan supplement and BSBP Commissioners' meeting information is posted forthwith to the BSBP web site (which is not the case to this very day).
Sincerely,
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
(Illustrative attachment:))
Michigan Commission for the Blind
Year End Operating Budget for Fiscal Year 2008
Fiscal Year Period: October 1, 2007 through September 30, 2008
REVENUES
GF/GP $4,543,649
DED-OSER 14,101,602
TRAINING 19,219
SOCIAL SECURITY REIMBURSEMENT 531,459
DED-OSERS SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT 103,206
GIFTS and STANLEY HERMAN 15,000
LOCAL MATCH 100,000
SETASIDE 410,000
OLDER BLIND 1,042,808
PART B 197,721
TOTAL REVENUES 21,064,664
EXPENDITURES BY CATEGORY BUDGETED SPENT % SPENT
ADMINISTRATION $1,073,838 $1,004,037 93%
PASSTHROUGHS $1,836,021 $1,600,282 87%
VR $8,869,072 $8,739,327 99%
MCB TRAINING CENTER $3,875,203 $3,269,961 84%
BUSINESS ENTERPRISE
PROGRAM $3,347,792 $2,823,226 84%
INDEPENDENT LIVING $1,820,938 $1,712,496 94%
YOUTH LOW VISION $241,800 $241,800 100%
TOTAL EXPENDITURES $21,064,665 $19,391,129 92%
Carla Miller Haynes
LARA Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP)
201 N. Washington Square, 2nd Floor
P.O. Box 30652
Lansing, MI 48909
Telephone: 517-373-2063 or Toll-Free 1-800-292-4200
Fax: 517-335-5140
www.michigan.gov/bsbp
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