[nfbmi-talk] Fw: Fw: not accessible to me

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Wed Feb 12 16:41:12 UTC 2014


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ELMER CERANO" <ECERANO at mpas.org>
To: "joe Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: not accessible to me


> Mr. Harcz,
> please go to the MPAS web site and type in Annual report in the search
> box.
> 
> the 2012 report is available in PDF, DOCX and TXT.
> 
>>>> "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net> 2/12/2014 11:19:12 AM
>>>>
> I still can't find the report you reference here in any format!
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
> To: "ELMER CERANO" <ECERANO at mpas.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: not accessible to me
> 
> 
>> Elmer,
>>
>> Can you give me a link to the annual report?
>>
>> Wwading through the MPAS web site is simply goofy as I've told other
> 
>> folks.
>> By the way some pdf's are accessable to me. Some not. In fact some
> Word 
>> docs aren't totally accessable to me given my outdated technology,.
>>
>> That is precisely why the is "primary consideration" built in to the
> 
>> "Auxilliary aids and services" requirements of 504 and why ditto
> applies 
>> to the ADA.
>>
>> But what I am so sad to hhear is that MPAS over and over doesn't 
>> understand these basic issues.
>>
>> By the way if I request Braille then tthat should be fortchoming in a
> 
>> timely manner too.
>>
>> The onus is on the entity to remit again in a timely manner documents
> in 
>> the most effective format for that individual.
>>
>> By the way I still have had no response to my request for all of
> MPAS' 
>> conflict of interests statements of board members!
>>
>> And under 504 and the ADA a failure to respond to a request for 
>> accommodation is a violation in and of itself.
>>
>> This also goes to BSBP, and other state actors that I've complained
> about 
>> and documented individual, and class violations, and your
> responsability 
>> to understand these laws.
>>
>> Joe
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "ELMER CERANO" <ECERANO at mpas.org>
>> To: "joe Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net>
>> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 11:07 AM
>> Subject: Re: not accessible to me
>>
>>
>>> Mr. Harcz, the Board approved MPAS 2013 Audit had been added to the
> MPAS
>>> accessible Web site on January 22, 2014. It is in a PDF format, but
> as I
>>> understand it, your reader is not able to read the pdf document. To
>>> assist you, we are converting the documents to "word" so that your
>>> reader is able to access them. The MPAS 990 is also in process of
> being
>>> converted to both pdf and word and will be available shortly on the
>>> website.
>>>
>>> Per your request, I have also asked my Assistant to forward:
>>> -a copy of my 2007 letter to Janet Olszewski re: the proper
> community
>>> options for the residents of the former Mt. Pleasant Regional
> Center.
>>> -the Board approved Minutes from the September, 2013 Board Meeting.
>>>
>>>
>>>>>> "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz at comcast.net> 2/8/2014 1:49 PM >>>
>>> The following pdf document is a scanned image document and not
>>> accessable to me:
>>> www.arcmi.org/pdf/MPAS022807.pdf 
>>> .
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now I'm asking that you send it to me as a plain text document, or
> in
>>> Braille and in accordance with Section 504 and Title III obligations
> for
>>> effective communications.
>>>
>>> Joe
>> 
>




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