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July 18 2014 OUB Payments

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

joeharcz at comcast.net

To:

 

Edward Rodgers, Bureau Services to Blind Persons

 

Dear Sir,

 

I’m kind of wondering here what the following expenditure is all about:

 

“Payments to OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED FOR BLIND INC by LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS for fiscal year 2014

 

Table with 4 columns and 2 rows

Agency Name

Category Description

Warrant Date

Payments Total

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

6/27/2014”

$500.00

Now this is one of many expenditures of BSBP for things not accountable and it is rather odd that Mr. Essen berg, a highly paid civil service employee is on the Board of OUB and that might appear to be a conflict of interest in anyone’s schema. Regardless it is also odd that I keep seeing even numbered expenditures over and over again related to BSBP.

 

More odd is you folks never put on your own web site the programs which these expenditures large and small represent. (I.E. this is normally for a youth transition program or is it? Who knows? For you don’t even put these programs on BSBP’s web site or otherwise diseminate what the heck you all do to the public.

 

Who well to paraphrase a politician from the past, “$500 (unaccountable funds) here and a million there and pretty soon we’re talking about real money.

 

Regardless sir it is long since time for you to account for and explain expenditures from BSBP; to disclose known conflicts of interests; and to come clean with taxpayers and consumers alike.

 

This thing of course is only the tip of the iceberg and very incidental but goes to a pattern and practice. In fact it goes to major misappropriations of federal and state public funds which are nothing short of bribes in my not so humble opinion to various entities of which OUB is just a proverbial pimple upon the elephant’s posterior in the large scheme of things.

 

Regardless one must answer these things if one is to live up to Governor Snyder’s purported open and accountable, metric driven mission and all that, don’t you think?

 

Or are we people who are blind just supposed to sit back and take it all and then get a few crumbs handed out here and there which is not accounted for while you and the Administration take the real money and programs from us while you fiddle about at the public trough without even a modicum of public accountability?

 

Sorry if I use “big words” here Mr. Rodgers et al, but you claim to be educated and accountable public servants.

 

 

 

 

 

Cordially,

 

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.