[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on New Horizons

Fri Jun 13 18:22:08 UTC 2014

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA) 
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on New Horizons

Ms. Haynes et al,

It was me and not Ms. Zanger who informed your agency that the sighted operator of "Cora's Café" is one Ms Cathy Petrelli and it was I who informed you all of the initial stock and inventory was paid for with VR funds (see attachment).

And yet you wish to charge me under FOIA for this too?

Oh and you acknowledge in your FOIA response that BSBP has no licensing agreement (i.e. contract) with this sighted non-disabled individual?

Is your agency always so fast and loose with the taxpayer's funds whose primary purpose is for the rehabilitation of people who are blind and in this case for the purposes of blind entrepreneurs in the Business Enterprise Program?

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: several including RSA

Source:

http://media.state.mi.us/MiTransparency/Vendor/Warrants?y=2014&v=CATHY%20PETRILLI&a=641&g=Contractual%20Services%20Supplies%20and%20Materials&Column=WarrantDate&Direction=Descending

Payments to CATHY PETRILLI 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

5/15/2014

$2,250.00

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Jones, Leamon (LARA) ; Gaston, Diamalyn (LARA) 
  Sent: Friday, June 13, 2014 1:45 PM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on New Horizons

  June 13, 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 New Horizons

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

  This email is in response to your June 6, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on June 9, 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:

  "Now I'm asking for explanations of any and all of the expenditures and the transparency of relationships of those cited iin the public record after my signature line here."  Note:  The email is below that outlines the expenditures referred to.

  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 June 27, 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 

  FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

  June 13, 2014

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  that cost (before or no later than June 27, 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

  Leamon Jones

  Diamalyn Gaston

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

  Sent: Friday, June 06, 2014 8:46 PM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

  Cc: Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; BSBPcommissioners; Luzenski, Sue (LARA); nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org 

  Subject: new horizons again?

  June 6 2014 New Horizons Again?

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  810-516-5262

  joeharcz at comcast.net

  To: Edward Rodgers, Director

  Bureau of Services to Blind Persons

  Mike Pemble, BSBP

  Mike Zimmer, LARA, DSA

  S. Luzenski

  Chrystyne Cativao, RSA

  All,

  Note that New Horizons was sited along with the former Michigan Commission for the Blind in its monitorring for "reverson to vendor" which thechnically is fraud upon the taxpayer if you'dcheck it out in the RSA monitorring report of 2009 of MCB. Note that

  on BSBP alone I've denoted the inherentPayments to NEW HORIZONS  of any sort as conflicts of intersts as one Gwen Mcneal a federally funded state employee of BSBP/formerly MCB and area Supervisor of same has been on the Board of Directors of this same federally funded, community rehab org.

  What gives here? The conflicts continue.

  Now I'm asking for explanations of any and all of the expenditures and the transparency of relationships of those cited iin the public record after my signature line here.

  (By the way the relillegal relationships between this CRP and former and current members of the SRC and other entities are so tight and so inherently inscestous that I'm surprised that all Michigangers aren't glowing in the dark and have other notable birth defects due to the intense and incestours relationships going on here.)

  Joe Harcz

  REHABILITATION SERVICES by LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS for fiscal 

  year 2014

  Table with 4 columns and 8 rows

  Agency Name

  Category Description

  Warrant Date

  Payments Total

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  1/28/2014

  $544.00

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  1/21/2014

  $1,566.00

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  1/16/2014

  $5,052.00

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  12/17/2013

  $2,526.00

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  12/13/2013

  $2,526.00

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  11/26/2013

  $5,052.00

  LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

  Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

  10/24/2013

  $1,925.20

  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