[nfbmi-talk] Fw: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Anderson Building - Petrilli

[joe harcz Comcast]

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From: joe harcz Comcast 
To: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Essenberg, Rob (LARA) ; Zanger, Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) 
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Subject: Re: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Anderson Building - Petrilli


All employees must be documented in the RSA 15. So I'm again requesting those required federal reporting documents and they had better be accurate or then BSBP would be guilty of making false statements and indeed false claimes to an agency of the United States government which does create and fund BSBP to begin with.

Sincerely,

Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
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  From: Haynes, Carla (LARA) 
  To: joe harcz Comcast 
  Cc: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) ; Luzenski, Sue (LARA) ; Pemble, Mike (LARA) ; Belknap, Katie (LARA) ; Essenberg, Rob (LARA) ; Zanger, Connie (LARA) ; Hull, James (LARA) 
  Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 5:12 PM
  Subject: FOIA Response to Request for Information on Anderson Building - Petrilli


  June 9, 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 Anderson Bldg. - Petrilli

   

  Dear Mr. Harcz, Jr.:

   

  This email is in response to your May 30, 2014, email request for information, received by this office on June 2, 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:

   

  "Regardless I am again requesting from you all the temporary operator agreement for this BEP location with its terms and conditions...Moreover, I am again requesting the names, salaries and positions of just who in the heck is working at "Cora's Café". Finally, as Mr. Rodgers himself stated in a recent press story the he thought, "four of the seven employees were blind" I wish to have those blind employees identified for the record."

   

  In regards to your request for the temporary operator agreement for Cora's Café, your request is denied.  To the best of my knowledge, information or belief, this documentation does not currently exist pertaining to your request.  When such documentation does exist, we would be able to send you a copy.

   

  FOIA Response - P.J. Harcz, Jr.

  June 6, 2014

  Page 2 of 2

   

   

  In regards to your request for names, salaries and positions of just who is working at "Cora's Café", Ms. Constance Zanger (in her May 30, 2014, email to you which is attached) indicated that Mr. Robert Essenberg and Ms. Amanda Newman are Business Assistance and Development Program (BADP) employees under BSBP and the only staff persons of which we would have any information on names, salaries and positions.

   

  In regards to your request to identify those employees who are blind, your request is denied.  To the best of my knowledge, information or belief, no such document exists that is pertinent to your request.

   

  Under the provisions of MCL 15.240, Section 10(1) of the state's FOIA, you may (1) submit a written appeal regarding the disclosure denial of any portion of your FOIA request to Steve Arwood, Director, Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Michael Zimmer, Chief Deputy Director, P.O. Box 30004, Lansing, MI 48909. Your appeal must include the word "appeal" and identify the reason(s) for FOIA

  reversal of any disclosure denials; or (2) you may file an action in an appropriate court within 180 days after this notice. If you prevail in court action, the court may award you reasonable attorney fees, costs, and disbursements. If the court finds the Department's actions to be arbitrary and capricious, the court shall award you, in addition to any actual or compensatory damages, punitive damages in the amount of $500.00.

   

  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

  Rob Essenberg. Constance Zanger, James Hull



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

  Sent: Friday, May 30, 2014 9:57 AM 

  To: Rodgers, Edward (LARA) 

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

  Marlene Malloy MCRS Dir.; BRIAN SABOURIN 

  Subject: more anderson questions petrilli

   

  May 30 2014 Petrilli Questions

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

  1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.

  Mt. Morris, MI 48458

  810-516-5262

  joeharcz at comcast.net

   

  To: Edward Rodgers, Director Mich. Bureau Services to Blind Persons

  (Designated State Unit)

  Michael Zimmer, LARA, DSA

   

   

  Dear Mr. Rodgers and Mr. Zimmer,

   

  I am writing today to inquire about the vendor payment to one Cathy Petrilli from the DTMB web site (note after my signature line for your convenience). I assume this payment was made for initial stock and inventory at the new "Cora's Café) which is supposed to be a mandated facility for a blind BEP operator under Public Act 260. I assume that Ms. Petrilli is the so-called temporary operator that Ms. Constance Zanger alluded to in her rather vague (no names) response to basic information about this facility sent to me recently.

   

  Regardless I am again requesting from you all the temporary operator agreement for this BEP location with its terms and conditions.

   

  Moreover, I am compelled to point out that Ms. Petrilli is sighted and has a history of violating program rules in the past. (Not that that makes a difference to BSBP as it has done so over and over again along with stark and chronic violations of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Public Act 260.)

   

  Moreover, I am again requesting the names, salaries and positions of just who in the heck is working at "Cora's Café". Finally, as Mr. Rodgers himself stated in a recent press story the he thought, "four of the seven employees were blind" I wish to have those blind employees identified for the record.

   

  You may simply respond via conventional e-mail to this request.

   

  Thanks as always for your prompt and accessible response, in a timely manner.

   

   

  Sincerely,

   

  Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.

   

  Cc: NFB MI

  Cc: RSA

  Cc: several state reps

  Cc: MCRS

  Cc: several media

  Cc: MPAS

  Cc: BSBP Commissioners

  Cc: C. Zanger. BSBP BEP

  Cc: EOC

  Cc: S. Luzenski, BSBP Admin. Asst.

   

   

   

   

   

  Attachment:

   

  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

   

   

   

  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