[Vendorsmi] Fw: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - PaymentstoEagleMediaSystems Inc. FY 2011
joe harcz Comcast
joeharcz at comcast.net
Tue Jan 24 03:12:45 UTC 2012
Dear Colleagues,
Over the years I've promoted open government and advocated for many an NFB member who was wrongly discharged or otherwise abused. In fact, I've fought in selfless manner for those wrongly discharged and otherwise abused who were members of the ACB, or non-affiliates and my record and conscience is pure and steadfast in these accounts as all public records do thus account. In fact I've always fought for the countless under dogs abused by dogs of war and perfidy and ignominy including first and foremost those who were and are blind. Moreover, I've advocated for our full inclusion and for our full access the system of government, including of course the educational system and the rehabilitation system for first things start at first instance and if the system isn't fully accessible...Well it goes without saying then we are denied equal opportunity and equal protection under the laws of this land to the very system of inclusion itself isn't it?
Now, I'll also say this: "There are a few and albeit very few traitors within our midst. This isn't the rambling of a disgruntled person who has been denied access like so many from the system of rehab, or of a disgruntled employee who was blued, screwed and tattooed so to speak like so many.
But this is from one who has fought for basic access and equity asking for nothing from the system but access, equality and justice. Period. Explanation point!
Now, colleagues where is our collective civil rights supposedly guaranteed under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act or of, the ADA for that matter and all endowed purportedly equally under the 14th Amendment, Article V of the United States Constitution in this State of Michigan let alone others today decades after the promise in law and equity of these self same constitutional, human, and civil rights? In other words colleagues are we not equal to all other citizens and aren't these equalities endowed upon us, we the blind equally, as citizens of this self-same Republic?
Are we children, so-to-speak of a lesser God? Are we not equal to all task if given equal opportunities and equal accommodations and equal tools of trades, etc. adaptive to our unique circumstances? Or are we just fodder, pitiable figures without merit or worth...to be beggars of circumstances and the charitable follies of self indulgent masters?
I say, "If people wish for freedom then grasp it! I say, if people wish for equality then demand it! I say, if people claim the brave and noble equality of blind folks amongst the human heart and the hard scrabble existence offered to others, then be so and ask for nothing less!"
It is far from the time that we as individuals accept any kow towing to corporate or institutional masters of our fait and that we demand from them accountability and not the other way around. These federally subsidized masters of the trade like New Horizons, Peckham, and others of the ilk suck at the bones of a system that exploits not only the blind, the organized blind but also all other people with other disabilities our kindred brothers and sisters and our progeny, our spirits and our mothers, fathers, and our human brethren. Yet, we in the NFB stand along with others as leaders like thus in ADAPT fighting this venal exploitation and yet the beat goes on whilst our drum grows dull as we sit divided amongst our basic purposes to begin with.
It sure in heck is long since time that funds expended for our purposes are expended at very least for just that and not for the aggrandizement of an anointed few sell outs or "company men" and not of course after all for the purposes of the exploiters of us all.
We can start by denying the true beggars working against our collective and personal interests federal funding. Yup, I'm going to say the unmentionable . I'm going to say we must commit the so-called "nuclear option" against all the blind and the otherwise severely disabled as defined into law in Michigan. I say, "cut out every thin dime of federal funding from MRS, SILC, and MCB." And that is just the beginning here. Choke off the rat that sucks these fefederal funds in the first place with this system so corrupt and the rest of the United States will get its collective act together for sure in first order.
Will there be pain here? Yes! But who will suffer the pain first? Is it we who are deprived for the most part to begin with? No, that's a done deal. Will it be the hacks, and quacks and other malefactors who think they are above the law and whom are funded by the lawful order and the federal taxpayer to begin with? Yup! You betcha! Those are the very folks who won't have a job! The very agents of deceit and destruction that both the right and the left equally deplore. I say, "Nuke 'em figuratively speaking"
I say I couldn't find a thing wrong with seeing the likes of Jaye Porter, Pat Cannon, Leemon Jones, Beth White etc,. and etc. in the unemployment line as something to give my almost nothing of fading eyes to behold. Of course I'd like to see them at a docket akin to that of Nurenberg for their and others true acts of depravity for self-interests against the collective humanity of us all and all the robbed lives and all the robbed livelihoods and all the perfidy and all the scandal for what? For again their personal sense of entitlement and that of their corporate masters for forgive these SOBS as you must their puppet masters who go unnamed are even worse. The likes of the pathetic Cannon after all and in spite of his own narcissistic notions of grandiosity are but sands in the wind and but tokens of his own fealty to his puppeteers who manipulate him just like the Pinocchio he is.
Watch out for that growing nose!
These are not the times for the timid here in Michigan or elsewhere. These are the times for the brave and for warriors.
These are not the times for those whom might feel comforted in that they have some sort of seat at the Temple of the Beast of Babylon whilst the modest amongst us feast upon the bones of carrion.
Sitting at the throne of tyrants isn't anything but that.
We are 21st Century men and women and not the victims of yesterday or are we?
We, the organized blind demand what is rightfully ours and not the crumbs from the king's table or those spread amongst our collective midst don't we?
Isn't the birthright and the promise of the organized blind to garner a piece of the so-called American Pie?
Yet, we act in so many instances as like beggars asking for this or that scrap of a job or a scrap of information and oh...so sorry after all these years sir, can I have another cup of porridge?
What are we, " A collective of Oliver Twists?"
How in the living world will we ever have our true and equal destiny if we don't have our basic information?
Jeez Louise we can't even get timely delivery of draft minutes to official public meetings of MCB and then some amongst us think we must go to the same Attorney General's who violate us to begin with for an other goodly offices for the an opinion about such pure bovine scatology by the very violators of our civil rights in the first place; and for matters that were supposed to be our birthright as citizens to begin with once again? Wonder what African-Americans of that schema thought about these things in the era of Plessy V. Ferguson and other "Jim Crow" Laws? Of course, they rightfully thought the angle of repose as an absurd declination of Caeser's arbitrary rule over them and thus we should consider the absurdity of civil rights violations against us, those who are blind organized or not!
Isn't this again like a thief in the night putting a gun to our collective throat and then asking the assaulted to go to his brother thief for an opinion about the same assault? What is more absurd is some amonst us ask for yet another opinion overand over again from the same people who have pulled the trigger against our throats over and over again. How often can we have our necks bled and our heads blown to bits before we say enough is enough?
Oh and that gets me to Pat Cannon's evaluation. First he defines his "report card" by rook and crook. Then after a decade he can't stack that deck but wishes to do it nonetheless.
And he rights his report card once again and spends endless time and countless dollars in putting it forward and when his report card isn't what he wants it to be he gets his corporate masters to ignore it regardless. Why?
The stupid and fat sellout to all of us is just a shill to steal millions annually from all of us whilst we scrabble amongst ourselves for the crums from the King's table...No not even the King's table...For we, the blind don't even deserve that...No we get the crumbs from the "Beggar's Banquet" and from the "Court Jesters floor"...Yup we like lap dogs suck at the crumbs not even from the King's table but from the very floor.
How is this for our dignity to lick from the heel of the bloody boot that kicked us in the collective teeth to begin with in the first place?
How is this for the mighty and proud NFB to take such indignities laying down after being kicked over and over again?
So that some of us are highly placed?
That was not our mission to garner a few, but rather it was our mission to garner freedom, equality and for one and all and to equalize the dream, the American Dream of freedom for all who are blind.
To quote Martin Luther King, Jr. "An injustice to one is an injustice to everyone.
If anyone in Michigan let alone anyone who is blind on this planet thinks that our struggle for civil rights is over then he or she is so self deluded as to be in a word "nuts".
It is time for us and for every individual of conscience who is blind, and most especially here in the most corrupted state of Michigan to demand full inclusion, full civil rights protections", and the basics of human dignity that are afforded to one and all. And we should not be ashamed for the demand of these things being our birthrights as humans. We should not go as beggars demanding or begging for same, but we, should be militant and like lions and warriors as we were of old back in the days when being members and activists and militants of the National Federation of the Blind meant just that!
----- Original Message -----
From: Terry Eagle
To: 'NFB of Michigan Vendors List'
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Vendorsmi] Fw: FOIA Request 1-6-12 - PaymentstoEagleMediaSystems Inc. FY 2011
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
To: NFB of Michigan Vendors List
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 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 (LARA)
To: joe harcz Comcast
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, Carla (LARA)
To: joe harcz Comcast (joeharcz at comcast.net)
Cc: Cannon, Patrick (LARA) ; Farmer, Mel (LARA) ; Turney, Susan (LARA) ; Duell, Elsie (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Zanger, Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA)
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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