[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Stand Reports & Site Visit Reports

[joe harcz Comcast]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Zanger, Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) ; Hoskins, Joshua (LARA) 
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Stand Reports & Site Visit Reports


Please note in several reports including those to the Michigan Auditor General BSBP has assured that its it system is in place to generate just these reports and that they are indeed required under various laws.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net) 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Zanger, Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) ; Hoskins, Joshua (LARA) 
  Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 12:53 PM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Stand Reports & Site Visit Reports


  May 12, 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 Captiol Stand Reports and J. Hoskins' Site Visits from January 2013

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

   

  This email is in response to your May 6, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on May 7, 2014.  Please be advised that the Bureau of Services for Blind Persons (BSBP) is processing these requests 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 writing you both today to request the monthly stand reports for the BEP Capitol Location for the period of June1, 2013 to the present.  Moreover, I am formally requesting right now, in accessible format the required Site Visit reports of Mr. Josh Hoskins for the period of January 1, 2013 to the present."

   

  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 May 27, 2014.

   

  FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

  May 12, 2014

  Page 2 of 2

   

   

  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 May 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

  Constance Zanger

  James Hull



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

  Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 4:16 PM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

  Cc: Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Zanger, Connie (LARA); Zimmer, Mike (LARA); Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; 

  Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir.; BRIAN SABOURIN; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; James Chaney EOC; 

  commissioner-hudson at outlook.com; Joe Sibley MCBVI Pres.; BSBPcommissioners 

  Subject: monthly stand reports and hoskins reports

   

  May 6 2014 Monthly Stand Report Capitol

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  joeharcz at comcast.net

   

  To: Edward Rodgers, Director

  Constance Zanger, BSBP Business enterprise Program

  (VI: e-mail)

   

  Dear Mr. Rodgers and Ms. Zanger,

   

  I am writing you both today to request the monthly stand reports for the BEP Capitol Location for the period of Jjune1, 2013 to the present. I will note that you require these of licensed operators and have even taken away licenses for not remitting them. And what is good for the goose is certainly good for the gander., Moreover you are required to have these at the ready to be in compliance with the auditor general's findings and with federal reporting requirements.

   

  Thus send them to me as an accessible spread sheet.

   

  Moreover, I am formally requesting right now, in accessible format the required Site Visit reports of Mr. Josh Hoskins for the period of January 1, 2013 to the present.

   

  Thanks in advance for your prompt remission of these required reports.

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  Cc: RSA

  Cc: NFB MI

  Cc: EOC

  Cc: MCRS

  Cc: several state legislators

   

  Cc: Michigan Auditor General

  Cc: Mike Zimmer LARA

   

   

   

  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