[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information for Michigan Restaurant Association Contract and RFP for BEP Data System

Sat Jul 5 01:55:40 UTC 2014

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: blind democracy List 
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 8:29 PM
Subject: Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information for Michigan Restaurant Association Contract and RFP for BEP Data System

Oh yes these clowns can tell we the "little people" they don't have to account for anything.

But wait a minute they think we the "little people" have to account for everything including their fucking pay checks.

Remarkable this shit is. Quite remarkable.

By the way these VR funds are stolen outright by the State of Michigan. They are taken undr false pretenses, not accounted for and I'll document are stolen outright.

But aside from my angst and all on these sometimes arcane state issues they represent only the proverbial tip so far as I can document of massive abuse and massive corporatism in all affairs.

In other words this is the tip of a giangic iceberg but one in which in this instance hundreds of thousands of Michiganders with disabilities including those whom are blind get royally fucked, and royally ripped off by a royally corrupted and royally unmonitorred system of royally ....

Well is there a theme here? Is it "roylly" and is it an abdication to "royal authority".

So I guess this is most appropriate for this list upon this occasion upon which we supposedly thing that "royal authority" along with supposedly the founders we celebrate on this occcasion is fucking relevent for crying out loud and for Christ's sake!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: BRIAN SABOURIN 
Cc: Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir. ; Michael Poyma VA MCRS ; Sara Grivetti ; valarie Barnum Yarger MISILC ; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov ; Elmer Cerano MPAS ; MARK CODY ; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres. ; Marianne Dunn ; Pam Faris MI Rep. ; Steven Peruski 
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2014 8:16 PM
Subject: Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information for Michigan Restaurant Association Contract and RFP for BEP Data System

This is just one of numerous examples of violations of not just federal law but also of state laws by this scofflaw organization. They don't even follow the FOIA they talk about here as they've given me nothing, including notice of their superfluous decisions related to this request alone within their own ludicrous timeframe.

This is all a cover up of multiple violations of all sorts of laws and another cover up of theft of services for blind and otherwise disabled people from this federally and taxpayer funded program that thinks it can act with impunity of strictures and use these funds willy-nilly and without an ounce of accountability.

Just check out the dates, people and all involved here.

In other words RSA and all you so-called "watch dogs" on these programs check out the facts of where your federal funds are going and to what affect and to what accountability.

Ditto for those on MCRS, etc. and other watchdogs for accountability and veracity of these outfits.

I assert in the public record and in public here and in other posts that there is a massive misappropriation of federal funds let to these unmonitorred and unenforced scofflaws that is plain, and demonstrable in the public domain, and in the public record and including this very post as well as others.

If I'm lying I'm dying as they say in the colloquial.

now, it is not only time but it is the duty of OSERS, Congress, RSA, The Office of Inspector General (ED), GAO. all consumer organizations, and all else that is right with the world and in the public interest let alone the interest of the blind of Michigan, let alone those others with disabilities here to hold these entities accountable.

This day, July 4 is the so-called celebration of the Independence from tyranny from Britain.

Should we more than two centuries later suffer continuences of such tyranny in all of our affairs as people with disabilities here in Michigan, with hogs of the public and private sector sucking our life blood at the public trough, without equity, equanimanity, advis, counsel or even information whichih is present facts in all dictatorships to begin with?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
To: joe harcz Comcast 
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Essenberg, Rob (LARA) ; Zanger, Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) 
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 1:18 PM
Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information for Michigan Restaurant Association Contract and RFP for BEP Data System

July 3, 2014

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 Michigan Restaurant Association Contract and RFP for BEP Data System

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

This email is in response to your June 26, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on June 27, 2014.  Please be advised that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP) is processing this request under the state's Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), MCL 15.231 et seq.

You have requested information as described in your email (which is also below) as:

"I am asking you today for the contract between BSBP (a federally created and funded Vocational Rehabilitation Agency) and the Michigan Restaurant Association and any private restaurants contracted with and referenced in the above.

I am also requesting the referenced RFP related to the BEP data System which by the way you've been talking about ever since you assumed the directorship of the BSBP in October of 2012 and which was a part of the findings and rrecomendations  of the Michigan Auditor General's report in November, 2012."

In order to determine the extent of the research time, the size and number of records of nonexempt information within BSBP responsive to your 

FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

July 3, 2014

Page 2 of 2

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 July 17, 2014.

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 that cost (before or no later than July 17 2014).  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

Constance Zanger

James Hull

Rob Essenberg

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

Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2014 10:43 AM 

To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

Cc: Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Mike Pemble BSBP Dep. Dir.; Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; Lamb, Elden (OAG); 

Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir.; BRIAN SABOURIN; trina edmondson mcrs dac; Michael Poyma VA MCRS; 

nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; Gary Gaynor; commissioner-hudson at outlook.com; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres.; 

BSBPcommissioners 

Subject: request perported rfp contracts

June 26 2014 RFP and MRA Contract

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

810-516-5262

joeharcz at comcast.net

To:

Edward Rodgers, Director

Mich. Bureau of Services to Blind Persons (BSBP)

Dear Mr. Rodgers,

I point you to the following:

(From: Draft MCRS Minutes May 2 2014)

"Business Enterprise Program (BEP)

A brief overview was provided of the BEP, which is a federal and state program that gives preference to blind entrepreneurs in either federal or state operated buildings, including Michigan highway rest stops, to run either snack and/or vending machines.  

Update:  BEP Operator in Anderson House Office Building, Downtown Lansing

BSBP has been working hard to get BEP operators back into the Anderson building after a recent absence.  A goal for the end of May has been set for this to take place.

Division of Business Assistance and Development

Under the leadership of its new Director, Rob Essenberg, this division has been 

combined with the BEP.  Both divisions will be housed in the Anderson building.  

Partnership with Michigan Restaurant Association

Some of the Association's members will be giving BSBP products that will be sold at various facilities.  Contracts are in the process of being finalized.

BSBP Data System

BSBP is currently in the process of updating its data system for information management.  A RFP (request for proposals) is being finalized for bids for a new data collection system, which will be working with the BEP and vending routes for more computerized monitoring of stock levels in operator machines."

I am asking you today for the contract between BSBP (a federally created and funded Vocational Rehabilitation Agency) and the Michigan Restaurant Association and any private restaurants contracted with and referenced in the above.

I am also requesting the referenced RFP related to the BEP data System which by the way you've been talking about ever since you assumed the directorship of the BSBP in October of 2012 and which was a part of the findings and rrecomendations  of the Michigan Auditor General's report in November, 2012.

As always I thank you for your prompt and accessible response to this inquiry of a public official dealing with public funds.

I know by your comments recently at the MCRS meeting that you will be forthcoming in supplying such information and the documentation of such claims to the MCRS too.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: NFB MI

Cc: ED, MCRS

Cc: MCRS Members

Cc: RSA

Cc: BSBP Commission

Cc: several

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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