[blind-democracy] Fw: FOIA 2016-354 Harcz
- From: "joe harcz Comcast" <joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:13:27 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: joe harcz Comcast
To: Witaifi, Lynae (DHHS)
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 8:06 AM
Subject: Re: FOIA 2016-354 Harcz
I have recieved no and I repeat no information in any format from TDN which is
the point here and I've recieved not one whit of information from Mr. Green and
DHHS which is supposed to be publicly available...Here is the referance to just
one bungling response in this outragious bovine scatology...
"-All articles of incorporation, by laws, minutes, etc. I am not sure what
“minutes” Mr. Harcz is referring to as MRS receives no CIL meeting minutes. MRS
should be able to provide TDN Flint’s articles of incorporation and bylaws, but
I believe that he has already received them. Mr. Harcz has made numerous
requests to DHHS-MRS for information and been provided with the material over
the past two years. I believe that he has received this information, but
am not sure.
In fact I've not recieved this information once again but TDN has recieved
untold thousands of bucks from and through DHHS and Mr. Green and in his above
quote he denotes he isn't sure about anything. Some monitoring huh?
And in his own and DHHS's own compliance guide they request minutes, simple
board meeting minutes but don't have them? Come on folks how incompetent is all
of this when doling out federal bucks to the CILs who actually violate our
rights and how is Mr. Green's very salary justified for this outrage?
Now, you all shield your incompetence about even fiscal misfeasance and
malfeasance with bogus and extortionate FOIA responses?
Have you in DHHS not learned a thing about the Flint Water crisis fiasco?
Have you not learned that citizen's request for competence and transparency
means something in the real world?
Here we have a non-disabled bureaucrat doling out federal funds to non-disabled
run rackets to violate our persons with disabilities rights and services and
then they try to shield themselves with extortionate FOIA responses to hide
their uttter abuses and their outrages!
The whole system here is so utterly corrupted that it needs to be de-funded
including Mr. Green who sucks our blood and doesn't do his job!
His job is supposed to be dealing with the monitoring of compliance with even
basics of The Disability Network in Flint and other CILs.
So, is Ms. Suzan Howell. It is not to dole out federal funds like a
racketeering enterprise and then to try to shield themselves from openess and
transparency!
We, people with disabilities are not your cash cows and your reason for
existence and salaries!
----- Original Message -----
From: Witaifi, Lynae (DHHS)
To: joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2016 2:42 PM
Subject: FOIA 2016-354 Harcz
Mr. Harcz,
Attached is the department’s response to your April 1, 2016 FOIA request.
Have a great day!
Lynae Witaifi
Assistant FOIA Coordinator
MI Department of Health & Human Services
This message, including any attachments is intended solely for the use of the
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From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 9:06 AM
To: Green, Kevin (DHHS)
Cc: Howell, Suzanne (DHHS) ; Timothy Beatty ACL/HHS ;
Kimball.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxx; BRIAN SABOURIN ; Elmer Cerano MPAS
Subject: Fw: request tdn information compliance
Mr. Green,
Once again you've not even responded to this request for information let
alone provided it in accessible format!
• I missed his request below in the several emails and lengthy,
rambling voice mail message that Mr. Harcz sent me March 12-14.
• I responded to this email today informing him that I was
forwarding his requests to the DHHS-FOIA office.
This is a violation of the ADA and Section 504 in and of itself!
Moreover, I've documented multiple violations of same by TDN.
I'm reiterating my request here and in subsequent pposts, timed, dated and
logged.
The DSE needs to be ac cessible, the CIL needs to be accessible and neither
are so. D
• DSE is Designated State Entity. MRS and BSBP share that
designation, but MRS is the dominant partner.
----- Original Message -----
From: joe harcz Comcast
To: Kevin Green DSE DHHS
Cc: Timothy Beatty ACL/HHS ; Kimball.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxx ; Kelly Buckland NCIL ;
Elmer Cerano MPAS
Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 9:42 AM
Subject: request tdn information compliance
March 12 2016 Green Info Request TDN
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
Mt. Morris, MI 48458
810-516-5262
Re: Information Request Concerning the Disability Network, Flint
Kevin Green, IL Program Analyst
Michigan Rehabilitation Services
235 S. Grand Ave., Suite 414
P.O. Box 30010
Lansing, Michigan 48909
Desk Phone: (517) 241-3457
TTY: (888) 605-6722
MRS-Grants-Contracts@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear Mr. Green,
I am writing you today to request information relative to The Disability
Network a center for independent living in Flint. (Directory information
follows here
J. Michael Zelley, Executive Director
Luke Zelley, Acting Director
The Disability Network
3600 S Dort Hwy. Ste. 54, Flint, MI 48507 | Voice: (810) 742-1800 | Fax:
(810) 742-2400 | TDD: (810) 742-7647
tdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Now, I’m requesting any and all information sent to or received by your
office relative to contract compliance including, but not limited to, the
following:
-Any compliance reviews if any, including engagement letters The compliance
review is being conducted, but is not completed. Engagement letters and
material requests can be provided.
-All “desk reviews” and all related documents. I am conducting the
compliance/desk review, which technically are the same thing. Bill Addison of
OQAIC is simultaneously conducting onsite data review (PARS, customer services,
etc.). I suspect that Mr. Harcz is asking for the data review, but does not
state so. (Darma and Eleanor Canter of Muskegon as associated with Mr. Harcz
and recently requested identical information for The Disability Network West
Michigan.)
-All 704 reports received by your office. The 704 Report is the Centers for
Independent Living’s annual report. MRS can provide it, but it is available
through TDN Flint and other sources.
-All articles of incorporation, by laws, minutes, etc. I am not sure what
“minutes” Mr. Harcz is referring to as MRS receives no CIL meeting minutes. MRS
should be able to provide TDN Flint’s articles of incorporation and bylaws, but
I believe that he has already received them. Mr. Harcz has made numerous
requests to DHHS-MRS for information and been provided with the material over
the past two years. I believe that he has received this information, but am not
sure.
-All quarterly reports. For what periods of time? MRS has been TDN Flint’s
(and all Michigan CILs’) grant administrator for decades.
Now, again the above documents are only highlights of my document request
here. For I’m requesting all documents, correspondences, etc. between any
personnel with TDN and your office. All documents and for what period of time?
Further I’ve noted that The Disability Network fails to remit said documents
to consumers; fails its contract and other laws as it does not allow citizens
with disabilities to even attend its board meetings in full; and that it
continually violates the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Section
504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 including my person. All of which I’ve
documented to you in the past.
The majority of Mr. Harcz’s complaints have been with the BSBP and TDN Flint
not making meeting agendas, minutes, and other documentation accessible in
readable form. Please see the two highlighted paragraphs below.
In the above regard your office being an entity of state and local government
is obligated to follow Title II, of the ADA, and as a recipient of federal
funds DHHS and all of its many subsidiaries, including your office is required
to follow Section 504 of the very Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended that
funds your office and indeed all CILs.
In that regard I am blind. As so I cannot read print. And Title II, subpart
e, communications of the ADA requires that all state and local entities
including yours remits information in alternate formats, based upon primary
consideration, in a timely manner and without surcharge.
This invoked I am requesting that you remit all documents requested as plain
text files that are either sent to me through my e-mail address listed above,
or are sent to me on a “thumb drive” and mailed to my physical address.
I thank you in advance for your prompt and accessible response.
Sincerely,
Paul “Joe” Harcz, Jr.
Cc: TB, ACL
Cc: KB, ACL
Cc: NCIL
Cc: Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service, Inc.
Cc: several
From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 9:09 AM
To: Green, Kevin (DHHS)
Cc: Howell, Suzanne (DHHS) ; Timothy Beatty ACL/HHS ;
Kimball.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxx; Rodney Craig ED MSILC ; Sarah Gravetti MISILC DNM ;
Kelly Buckland NCIL ; BRIAN SABOURIN ; Elmer Cerano MPAS
Subject: Fw: tdns quarterlies to silc and dhhs mrs
Again I've recieved no response let alone information in any format from the
following parties....
----- Original Message -----
From: joe harcz Comcast
To: Kevin Green DSE DHHS
Cc: Rodney Craig ED MSILC ; Sarah Gravetti MISILC DNM ; Lisa Cook-Gordon ;
Robin Bennett MSILC Member ; Wanda Travis MSILC Member ; Jim Wheyland MSILC
Member ; Dawn Reamer MSILC ; Kimball.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxx ; Timothy Beatty ACL/HHS
; Kelly Buckland NCIL
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2016 11:19 AM
Subject: tdns quarterlies to silc and dhhs mrs
March 13 2016 TDN Quarterly Reports Green Craig
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
Mt. Morris, MI 48458
810-516-5262
joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx
Re: The Disability Network’s (Flint) Quarterly Reports
To: Kevin Green, Contract Annalist, MRS/DHHS
(Via e-mail)
Rodney Craig, Executive Director,
Michigan Statewide Independent Living Council
(Via e-mail)
Sarah Gravetti, Chair, MSILC, E.D. Disability Network Michigan, SILC Member
on MCRS
(Via e-mail)
All,
I point your attention to the following from the core grant to The Disability
Network, Flint, Michigan:
“Quarterly Reports
Contractors must submit one copy of a narrative report to DHS/MRS describing
the progress of projects, quarterly. A copy must also be sent to:
Michigan Statewide Independent Living Council 417 Seymour Street, Suite 10
Lansing, Ml 48933
Reports must be received by both entities no later than:
• January 30, 2014
• April 30, 2014
• July 30, 2014
• October 30, 2014 (Serves as the final report.)
“
Now, I’ve requested these reports, in accessible format before, and am
reiterating the request to you, Mr. Green and you, Mr. Craig as they have never
been remitted. Moreover, I’m asking again for all information sent to your
offices respectively from The Disability Network. Both of you work for state
agencies and are responsible for maintaining such records to ensure compliance
with this center for independent living. Moreover, as state agencies you are
both obligated to remit said documents under Title II, of the ADA, subpart e,
communications in a timely and accessible manner to those of us who are blind,
including me.
Thus send these and other documents requested as proof read plain text files
to my e-mail address listed above. And don’t send them as the garbled
remissions that both of your offices have sent me in the past.
A failure to respond, let alone remit said information in a timely and
accessible manner is a violation of several laws, not the least of them the
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 let alone several provisions of the
very Rehabilitation Act of 1973 which funds these programs, including your very
positions!
Thus, I thank you in advance for your prompt attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
Cc: MSILC Members
Cc: TB, KG, ACL
Cc: NCIL
Cc: ADAPT
Cc: several
From: joe harcz Comcast [mailto:joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 9:53 AM
To: Green, Kevin (DHHS)
Cc: Howell, Suzanne (DHHS) ; Timothy Beatty ACL/HHS ;
Kimball.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxx; Kelly Buckland NCIL ; BRIAN SABOURIN ; Sarah Gravetti
MISILC DNM ; Rodney Craig ED MSILC ; Elmer Cerano MPAS
Subject: tdn's funding sources
April 1 2016 to Green on TDN Name of Funding Sources
Kevin Green, IL Program Analyst
Michigan Rehabilitation Services
235 S. Grand Ave., Suite 414
P.O. Box 30010
Lansing, Michigan 48909
Desk Phone: (517) 241-3457
TTY: (888) 605-6722
MRS-Grants-Contracts@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Re: Information on TDN
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
1365 E. Mt. Morris Rd.
Mt. Morris, MI 48458
joeharcz@xxxxxxxxxxx
810-516-5262
Dear Mr. Green,
I point your attention to the attached document entitled “Name of Funding
Source….”. Here Centers for Independent Living are supposed to send your office
their sources of funding. Now, I’m requesting this submittal from TheDisability
Network in Flint Michigan to your office as it was sent and when it was sent.
Moreover, being blind I need this document in accessible format which
shouldn’t be difficult if you send me the filled out Word document.
Moreover, once again I’m requesting any and all documents related to your
office’s monitoring of The Disability Network, my Center for Independent Living
in Flint.
I thank you for your prompt and accessible response.
Sincerely,
Paul Joseph Harcz, Jr.
Cc: ACL/ILA
Cc: MSILC
Cc: Suzan Howell, DHHS/MCRS
Cc: MPAS
Cc: NCIL
Cc: several
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