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I am requesting electronic copies of all design drawings/plans (civil, architectural, etc.) and studies completed (traffic, environmental, etc.) to date for the Coventry Boathouse Upgrades Project, however preliminary the plans/studies may be. Subject project is located at 124 Lake Street in Coventry, CT. Thank you in advance for your time.
FOI #23-492 (10-31-23, 11:18 am) - Subject - photos, videos, dash and/or body cam footage pertaining to incident on August 29, 2023.
Name - Tracy Caristinos
Affiliation - Levy, Leff & DeFrank, P.C.
Our client was walking from the parking lot to UCONN Health, 200 Academic Way, Farmington, CT when he was struck by a motor vehicle in the crosswalk. See Police Report #2300062737
FOI #23-490 - Subject - Central Utility Plant Boiler Replacement project #300151
Name - Hope Redding
Affiliation -
We are seeking additional certified payroll records on the UConn’s Central Utility Plant Boiler Replacement project #300151, located at 240 Glenbrook Road, Storrs CT. I've updated and attached our FOIA letter for your records. At your convenience, please provide certified payrolls submitted by the contractors listed below for the dates indicated. We can continue to accept the responsive records electrically. If you have questions or need anything further on our end, please let me know.
• Environmental Testing & Balancing for Wk ending 9.3.23 through to the present
• Ferguson Electric for Wk ending 8.19.23 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanical for Wk ending 8.12.23 through to the present
• Sullivan Benson for Wk ending 8.19.23 through to the present
FOI #23-489 - Subject - Capacity and Occupancy numbers
Name - Lilianna Morgan
Affiliation -
For Fall 2022-23 you provided us with Capacity and Occupancy numbers. Could you please provide me with Fall 2023-24 numbers?
I was hoping you could provide the following below.
• Total number of beds for Fall 2023 (Capacity):
• Total number of occupied beds for Fall 2023 (Occupancy):
• Price per bed/year (standard double room) fall 2023-2024:
• Price per meal plan/year (Unlimited/19meals/max) Fall 2023-2024:
We're looking to make a Public Records Request for the following information for the undergraduate and graduate population (if applicable) enrolled at University of Connecticut in the current academic term:
• Student Names
• majors
• class year
• participation in officially recognized sports
Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
FOI #23-485 (10-26-23, 4:32 am) - Subject - Kate Noelle Holmes Very Possible Wiretap - Fulton State Hospital (FSH) Policy Rl.01.14 & Rl.01.15
Name - Michael Ayele (a.k.a) W
Affiliation - Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5780-6457
What I am requesting for prompt disclosure are records in your possession detailing your discussions about [1] the term “schadenfreude” being defined as a “feeling of pleasure or satisfaction when something bad happens to someone else;” [2] Kate Noelle Holmes as a woman, who (i) was born December 18th 1978 in Toledo, Ohio; (ii) became a global superstar after starring on various Television (T.V) series and movies; (iii) wed Thomas Cruise Mapother IV in a “Scientologist ceremony” on (or around) November 18th 2006; (iv) filed for divorce from Thomas Cruise Mapother IV on (or around) June 29th 2012; (vi) was the subject of a very peculiar article published by Hollywood Life on (or around) July 11th 2012 after her divorce; [3] Hollywood Life as a news outlet that has on (or around) July 11th 2012 (i) reported that Kate Noelle Holmes had been “under surveillance and observation” after she concluded her November 18th 2006 marriage; (ii) reported that the postal mail correspondence addressed to Kate Noelle Holmes “had to be sent to Thomas Cruise’s team to open first” before being hand-delivered to her for review; (iii) strongly implied that Kate Noelle Holmes was the subject of a wiretap by the Church of Scientology with the blessing/approval of her ex-husband Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; (iv) asked members of the general public to comment on whether Kate Noelle Holmes was leading a “weird life,” which was being “controlled” by her ex-husband Thomas Cruise Mapother IV; [4] Michael A. Ayele (a.k.a) W as a Black man, who (i) was in Calendar Year 2013 informed by staff/legal representatives of the Missouri Department of Mental Health (MODMH) that the postal mail correspondence of certain patients/prisoners were being screened by the Fulton State Hospital (FSH) before being hand-delivered to those patients; (ii) was on July 08th 2022 provided documents by the MODMH attesting that the FSH screens the postal mail correspondence of their patients/prisoners before hand-delivering it to them; (iii) feels that the questions asked in the July 11th 2022 Hollywood Life article pertaining to Kate Noelle Holmes were inappropriate because Kate Noelle Holmes never was a registered sex offender in a locked and confined environment operated by the U.S government; (iv) has on (or around) August 13th 2023 expressed displeasure after several of his publications on the Internet Archive were distorted to be labelled “missing, misleading and/or inaccurate” (particularly) on the MSN/Bing Internet Search Engine (ISE); (v) doesn’t know how his publications on the Internet Archive could be labelled “missing, misleading and/or inaccurate” since those publications depict content that were provided by the U.S government; (vi) has initiated contact with Scribd (via their email at bizdev@scribd.com ) on (or around) October 08th 2023 to express in writing his frustrations on the subject of his publications pertaining to Jean Seberg defamation and wiretap being distorted...