[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BEP Operator Agreement

Wed Jun 10 14:43:34 UTC 2015

This is a great topic for Thursday's board meeting.
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Documentation of BEP distruction. What should we do?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Larry Posont NFBMI Pres. 
Cc: terry Eagle ; Mark Eagle ; David Robinson NFB MI 
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 10:48 AM
Subject: Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BEP Operator Agreement

This would be good for the NFB MI list serve.

Should be sent as is here with attachments.

Lots of violations of Title I, PA 260, the ADA, and Section 504 in here.

But, pick a card. Pick any card BSBP continues to violate all laws and the civil rights of all blind people.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
To: joe harcz Comcast 
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Heibeck, Cheryl (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) 
Sent: Monday, June 08, 2015 1:03 PM
Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on BEP Operator Agreement

June 8, 2015

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 R. Mann Agreement

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

This email is in response to your May 18, 2015, email request for information, received by this office on May 10, 2015, of which an extension was taken to June 8, 2015.  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 you describe as (your email request is below):

"I am writing you today to request the Temporary Operator's agreement with Roxanna Jo Mann referenced in yesterday's wonderful Lansing State Journal's story about this BEP Licensee at the Capitol And Anderson building."

Your request is granted as to existing, nonexempt documents in the possession of the department.  Please find attached to this email, the requested agreement in Word and in a PDF version.

The cost to produce this report is $25.11 (calculated by using $33.48 which is the hourly wage plus fringe benefits of the Department's lowest paid

FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

Page 2 of 2

June 8, 2015

employee capable of processing this request multiplied by the amount of time to process this request which is 3/4 of an hour = $25.11).  As this amount is within 11 cents of the Department threshold of $25.00 for charging costs involved in complying with a FOIA request, this FOIA fee is being waived.

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 Below - Email Request for Information

Attachments to this Email - 3 - Response, Agreement - Word Version, Agreement - PDF Version

cc:    Edward F. Rodgers II

Sue Luzenski

          Mike Pemble

Katie Belknap

Cheryl Heibeck

James Hull

From: joe harcz Comcast 

Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 9:30:13 AM (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) 

To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

Cc: Mike Pemble BSBP Dep. Dir.; Luzenski, Sue (LARA); Larry Posont NFBMI Pres.; 

Christyne.Cavataio at ed.gov; Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir.; BRIAN SABOURIN 

Subject: request mann agreement

May 18 Temp Op Agreement Mann

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

joeharcz at comcast.net

810-516-5262

To:

Ed Rodgers, Director

Mike Pemble, Deputy Director

Mich. Bureau Services for the Blind

*(via e-mail)

Sirs,

I am writing you today to request the Temporary Operator's agreement with Roxanna Jo Mann referenced in yesterday's wonderful Lansing State Journal's story about this BEP Licensee at the Capitol And Anderson building.

Moreover, as I'm blind I request this document in accessible format, in a timely manner and without surcharge as required by Title II of the ADA and Section 504 of the RA. To wit: send it to me as either a Word document, or a plain text enclosure to my e-mail address listed above.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

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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