[Vendorsmi] Fw: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments toEagleMediaSystems Inc. FY 2011

Tue Jan 24 02:14:32 UTC 2012

Can anyone tell me what useable factual information came out of the FOIA
request and the MCB response below?

To me, based on to whom the MCB response was emailed, it seems to me that
all that was accomplished was anyone remotely connected to the purchases and
payment have been given an opportunity to lose or make disappear any
documents, and 2)  all get a chuckle at preventing disclosure by legally
requiring payment to push a few keyboard keys, which all know cannot and
will not be paid to get the information.

Terry  

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From: vendorsmi-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:vendorsmi-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 6:57 PM
To: Joe Sontag; NFB of Michigan Vendors List
Subject: Re: [Vendorsmi] Fw: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments
toEagleMediaSystems Inc. FY 2011

This ain't the only thing here Joe S and moles of truth...This is just a
pimple upon the proverbial elephant's ass of corruption.

Man, some have chastised me for asking these very same questions. They are
questions after all of a public entity acting in a public trust.

But, again this is a pimple upon the elephant's ass of corruption.

It doesn't matter if these funds were misappropriated as they were in
demonstrable form. It doesn't matter if this or that is misappropriated if
some in our community continue to back bite us and to denigrate us asking
for truth.

The real big issues lay not only in the heretofore only particially
accessible auditor general reports of MRS and the partially accessible
conflicted cash mathch and other agreements of the likes of McNeal, Jones,
Cannon, White et al on all appropriations that even blind men can see after
years.

Not, you but I've been attacked for not forwarding this stuff on to public
integrity offices like say the public integrity office of say the Michigan
Attorney General's Office or the OIIG at the United States Department of Ed.
Which I've done by the way only to fall upon fucking deaf ears!

Well let you all be assured I've been the only one to my knoledge to drop an
appropriate dime in that regards.

Now it is time for moles to come out of the closet like Terry Eagle and not
to accuse those like me who try to shine the light of day upon a corrupt
system for not fowarding information that I don't profit from and do not
know...

If Terry wants to make allegations against me for some sort of perfidy
whilst I make nothing but headaches in fighting for the rights of blind
folks then so be it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Joe Sontag <mailto:suncat0 at gmail.com>  
To: NFB of Michigan Vendors List <mailto:vendorsmi at nfbnet.org>  
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Vendorsmi] Fw: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments to
EagleMediaSystems Inc. FY 2011

I need to hear from any operator who either has or was expecting to have a
security system installed in their highway locations or vending facilities.
A number of systems were purchased from Eagle Media, yet most of them exist
only on equipment inventory spreadsheets and cannot be found anywhere in BEP
facilities or storage.  Also, there have been allegations of a special
connection between the owner(s) of Eagle Media and assistant BEP
administrator James Hull that just won't go away.
----- Original Message ----- 

From: joe harcz  <mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net> Comcast 
To: Vendorsmi at nfbnet.org 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 14:02
Subject: [Vendorsmi] Fw: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments to Eagle
MediaSystems Inc. FY 2011

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Haynes, Carla  <mailto:haynesc at michigan.gov> (LARA) 
To: joe harcz Comcast <mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net>  
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 2:25 PM
Subject: RE: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments to Eagle Media Systems Inc. FY
2011

Hi,

No, not yet.  Sorry.

Carla Miller Haynes

DLARA Michigan Commission for the Blind

201 N. Washington Sq., 2nd Floor

P.O. Box 30652

Lansing, MI  48909

Phone:  517/373-2063

FAX: 517/335-5140

www.michigan.gov/mcb

From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net] 
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:42 AM
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA)
Subject: Re: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments to Eagle Media Systems Inc. FY
2011

Hi Carla,

Where you responding to my prior message relating to when Mr. Thomas became
LARA ADA coordinator?

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Haynes,  <mailto:haynesc at michigan.gov> Carla (LARA) 

To: joe harcz  <mailto:joeharcz at comcast.net)> Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net)

Cc: Cannon,  <mailto:cannonp at michigan.gov> Patrick (LARA) ; Farmer, Mel
(LARA) <mailto:farmerm at michigan.gov>  ; Turney,
<mailto:turneys at michigan.gov> Susan (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA)
<mailto:DuellE at michigan.gov>  ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA)
<mailto:LuzenskiS at michigan.gov>  ; Zanger,  <mailto:zangerc at michigan.gov>
Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) <mailto:hullj at michigan.gov>  

Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 11:26 AM

Subject: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - Payments to Eagle Media Systems Inc. FY 2011

January 20, 2012

Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

Re:  Eagle Media Expenditures FY 11

Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

This letter is in response to your January 6, 2012, email request for copies
of public records, received January 9, 2012 in this office.  Please be
informed that the Department's Michigan Commission for the Blind (MCB) 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, a copy of which
is attached.

Your request is granted as to existing, nonexempt records in the possession
of the Department falling within the scope of your request.

Your request is granted as to information on invoices paid to Eagle Media in
FY2011.  Section 4(1) of the FOIA, MCL 15.234(1), provides that a public
body may charge a fee for public record search, including the mailing,
costs, the cost of duplication or publication including labor, the cost of
search, examination, review, and the deletion and separation of exempt from
nonexempt information. The Department has estimated that a minimum of 4
hours of employee time must be drawn away from their respective duties and
assignments to search, locate, and retrieve records to determine if they are
responsive to your request, and to examine and review the responsive records
for possible statutory exemptions from public disclosure. For the above
reasons, the Department, pursuant to MCL15.234, Section 4(3) of the FOIA,
has determined that failure to charge a fee in this particular instance will
result in unreasonably high costs to the Department. The estimated costs to
process this request, based on the hourly wages (including fringe benefits)
of the lowest paid Department employee capable of performing the necessary
tasks to comply with the request is $100.40.

Therefore, in order to complete the processing of your request, based on the
hourly wages of the lowest paid Department employees capable of performing
the necessary tasks to process the request, under MCL 15.234, Section 4(2)
of the state's FOIA, the Department requires a good faith deposit of $40.20,
which is one-half of the total estimated $100.40, minus a $20.00 credit per
MCL 15.234, Section 4(1) of the FOIA. See the attached Invoice Calculations
illustrating estimated costs and payment instructions

These transactions are for equipment and repairs to camera systems in
various Business Enterprise Program (BEP) locations.  Invoices for equipment
are not paid until a camera is installed.  Invoices for repairs are not paid
until a repair is complete.  If a BEP location has a camera system, it is
the BEP operator's responsibility to notify their promotional agent if
repairs are needed.

After receipt of the good faith deposit and upon completing the process of
your request, the Department will notify you in writing of any balance due
and payable (or owed you) before copies of the requested records are
forwarded to you; and will explain any statutory basis for the exemption of
any records in or in part, and your remedial rights.

Sincerely,

Carla Miller Haynes, FOIA Coordinator

Michigan Commission for the Blind

Attachments: 

1.      Email of 1/7/2012 received 1/9/2012

2.      FOIA Invoice

cc:     Patrick Cannon

          Mel Farmer

          Susan Turney

          Elsie Duell

          Constance Zanger

          James Hull

Attachment - Email:

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

Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 3:57 PM

To: Cannon, Patrick (LARA)

Cc: Larry Posont MCB Comm.; lydia Schuck MCB Comm.; John Scott MCB Comm.;
nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org; James Cheney EOC; Hazell Brooks;
rutherford_beard at yahoo.com; terry Eagle; Mark Eagle

Subject: questions about eagle media

January 6 2012 Questions About Eagle Media FY 2011 Expenditures

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr

joeharcz at comcast.net

To: Patrick D. Cannon

Director Michigan Commission for the Blind

(Via e-mail)

Dear Mr. Cannon,

I'm writing you today to inquire about the following expenditure:

"Payments to EAGLE MEDIA SYSTEMS INC. by LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
for fiscal year 2011

Click on a category description to view payments to this vendor by this
category.

Table with 3 columns and 3 rows

Agency Name

Category Description

Payment Totals

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Contractual Services Supplies and Materials

$3,813.50

LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

Capital Acquisitions and Rentals

$7,440.00

"

Is this for security camera systems on BEP locations? Has the equipment been
installed? If so where? Has it been properly maintained?

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

Cc: MCB Commissioners

Cc: EOC

Cc: several vendors

Cc: Arwood, LARA

Cc: NFB MI

DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

MICHIGAN COMMISSION FOR THE BLIND

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT INVOICE

NAME AND ADDRESS OF REQUESTER:

Mr. Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

E-mail: joeharcz at comcast.net

1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

Mt. Morris, MI 48458

REQUEST RECEIVED:  January 9, 2012

TYPE OF REQUEST:  Email

REQUEST PARTIALLY DENIED:  No

EXEMPT INFORMATION WITHHELD/REDACTED:  To be determined

EXTENDED RESPONSE NOTICE ISSUED:  No

REQUESTED INFORMATION WILL BE:  Emailed/Invoiced For Partial Payment

ACCOUNT CODE:  Index:   36200        PCA: 11343

DLARA CONTACT:  Melvin Farmer, Central FOIA Coordinator (517) 373-0194,
Ottawa Building, 4th Floor, 611 W. Ottawa, Lansing, MI  48909

The FOIA provides that the department may charge a fee to comply with
requests for public records.  The processing fee is composed of hourly wages
and benefit costs of the lowest paid employee(s) capable of processing the
request; the duplication of records at assessed costs per page; mailing
costs; and other related special costs.  Prior to searching and copying
requested records, the department may request full payment or 50% of the
estimated costs exceeding $50.00 with the balance required before mailing
the records.  Assessed costs are related to your request for:

I'm writing you today to inquire about the following expenditure:

"Payments to EAGLE MEDIA SYSTEMS INC. by LICENSING AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS
for fiscal year 2011"

INVOICE CALCULATIONS

LABOR 

          Locating and Duplicating Cost:  

                   Number of Hours: 3 times Hourly Rate: $25.10 = Amount:
$75.30

          Examining and Extracting Cost:  

                   Number of Hours: 1 times Hourly Rate: $25.10 = Amount:
$25.10

TOTAL LABOR:           $100.40

POSTAGE (estimate):          $0

DUPLICATING:  Number of Pages times Copying Rate of $.25        $0

OTHER (overtime, audio tapes, discs, photos, security, etc.):  $0

SUBTOTAL:       $100.40

Less waived indigency fee under FOIA Act MCL 15.234 Section 4(1)
($20.00)

INVOICE TOTAL:        $80.40

DEPOSIT* $40.20

BALANCE TO BE PAID:      $40.20

Make check or money order payable to:         STATE OF MICHIGAN

Remit to:              Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs

Office Services Mailroom

7150 Harris Drive, PO Box 30015

Lansing, MI  48909

RETURN ORIGINAL COPY OF THIS INVOICE WITH YOUR PAYMENT

*Please note that if a deposit is requested, the indicated amount is an
estimate of the cost of complying with your request.  The actual cost may
vary somewhat from this amount.

Carla Miller Haynes

DLARA Michigan Commission for the Blind

201 N. Washington Sq., 2nd Floor

P.O. Box 30652

Lansing, MI  48909

Phone:  517/373-2063

FAX: 517/335-5140

www.michigan.gov/mcb

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