[nfbmi-talk] Fw: no response 7ob questions

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Ed Rodgers BSBP Dir. 
Cc: Sue Luzenski BSBP Adm. Ass. ; Leamon Jones BSBP ; Timothy Beatty RSA ; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov ; valarie Barnum Yarger MISILC ; Sarah Gravetti ; BRIAN SABOURIN ; Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir. ; Gary Gaynor ; commissioner-hudson at outlook.com ; bsbpcommissioners at michigan.gov 
Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2014 9:31 AM
Subject: no response 7ob questions


            
August 2 2014 Still No Response

 

To:

 

Edward Rodgers, Director BSBP

 

Dear Sir,

 

You have had now more than a month and one-half to answer some quite basic questions accounting for your agency’s use of federal funds for the older blind program. You have yet to respond in any fashion let alone account for how you’ve administerred this program.

 

This demands simple answers to basic questions sir!

 

Sincerely,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

 

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: RSA

Cc: MI SILC

Cc: several

(Attached as sentJ

 

 

June 16 2014 BSBP 7OB Prior Year Questions

 

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI  48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

810-516-5262

 

To:

Edward F. Rodgers, Director

Michigan Bureau Services for Blind Persons

Leemon Jones, BSBP

Mike Pemble, Deputy Director BSBP

Susan Luzenski Administrative Assistant, BSBP

(Via E-mail)

 

All,

 

I direct your attention to the following segment of the RSA 7OB report for Fiscal Year 2013 (which was the first year of operation of the new bureau after the ludicrous Executive Order 2012-10):

 

 

 

 

“Part V: Comparison of Prior Year Activities to Current Reported Year

 

A. Activity

 

Table with 4 columns and 7 rows

  

a) Prior Year

b) Reported FY

c) Change ( + / - )

1. Program Cost (all sources)

1,127,478

1,293,245

165,767

2. Number of Individuals Served

1,022

438

-584

3. Number of Minority Individuals Served

244

63

-181

4. Number of Community Awareness Activities

77

107

30

5. Number of Collaborating agencies and organizations

12

14

2

6. Number of Sub-grantees

1

1



table end

 

 

 

 

 

Source:

https://rsa.ed.gov/includes/export-html.cfm?filename=tmp-8430604b33e77518bd832670535939302745.html&exportto=print&utf16=1

 

“

 

How do you all explain such a dramatic drop of elderly blind persons served in excess of 50 percent while you had the same basic revenues under this program as did the defunct Michigan Commission for the Blind in the previous year?

 

How does this jive with the Governor’s contention that when he destroyed the Commission through the Executive Order that the same level of services will be maintained?

 

People legal blindness is growing, the need is growing especially among the elderly yet it appears on its face that resources are not being used to serve Michigander’s who are blind and elderly even on the level of FY 2012.

 

This is quite outrageous by any measure and needs a thorough explanation and accountability.

 

Sincerely,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: Sarah Ggravetti, Chair SILC

Cc: Valarie Barnum-Yargar, ED, MI SILC

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: TB, RSA

Cc: CAP/MAPS

Cc: BSBP Commissioners

Cc: MCRS