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FOI #26-447 - Subject - UConn New School of Nursing (Internal File #25-18)
Name - Hope Redding
Affiliation -
Hope you had a good July 4th weekend! Please see the attached FOI letter request certified payroll records submitted by the contractors listed below for work performed in the University of Connecticut New School of Nursing Project No. 300260, located at 1356 Storrs Rd., Mansfield, CT. The CM is Lee Kennedy Co., Inc. The GC is BOND Brothers. Please let me know if you have trouble opening the attachment or whether you need anything further on our end.
• Advance Resources for Wk ending 5.9.26 through to the present
• B&W Paving & Landscaping for Wk ending 5.9.26 through to the present
• Banton Construction for all weeks worked
• Barall & Konover Floors for all weeks worked
• Blackwater Services Group for Wk ending 5.10.26 through to the present
• Cherry Hill Glass for Wk ending 5.9.26 through to the present
• Connecticut Mason Contractors for Wk ending 5.9.26 through to the present
• Eagle Fence for Wk ending 4.4.26 through to the present
• Eastern Steel Erectors (Misc.) for Wk ending 5.2.26 through to the present
• Eastern Steel Erectors (Structural) for Wk ending 5.2.26 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanical HVAC for Wk ending 5.2.26 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanical PLUMB for Wk ending 5.2.26 through to the present
• M. Frank Higgins & Co for all weeks worked
• Manafort Brothers for Wk ending 4.25.26 through to the present
• Richards Corp for Wk ending 5.16.26 through to the present
• Scholar Painting and Restoration for all weeks worked
• Stairs & Steel for Wk ending 5.9.26 through to the present
• System One for all weeks worked
• Trinity Construction Group for Wk ending 4.18.26 through to the present
• Wayne Griffin Electric for Wk ending 5.3.26 through to the present
I would like to request a copy of a previous records request on the proposed UConn Golf Facility, made by a member of the Daily Campus. The FOI number is 26-112.
FOI #26-444 - Subject - FOIA Request — Diversity Professional Staff Salaries
Name - Brendan McDonald
Affiliation -
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, C.G.S. § 1-200 et seq., I request copies of public records sufficient to show the current salary, compensation, or pay rate for the following University of Connecticut Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice professional staff members:
1. Jeffrey Hines, M.D. — Vice President, UConn | UConn Health
2. Jonelle Reynolds, Ph.D. — Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives
3. Melisa Adiram, M.A. — Project Specialist
4. Kathleen Holgerson, M.P.A. — Interim Assistant Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion, UConn Health
5. Michael Vidal, M.Ed. — Director of Community and Stakeholder Engagement
6. Judy Lopez, M.P.A. — Associate Director of Business Operations
FOI #26-443 (07-4-26, 9:08 pm) - Subject - Purchase Orders
Name - Kaho Mizutani
Affiliation - The Data Branch
I am hereby submitting a public records request for purchasing data. Specifically, we request a spreadsheet or equivalent file containing all purchase orders issued between January 1, 2023, and the present.
Scope of Request:
We are seeking records that reflect purchasing or procurement activity by any department, division, bureau, group, or office under your jurisdiction.
We understand a single, centralized report may not exist. In that case, we are happy to receive:
Department-level or segmented purchasing data
Any readily available reports
Records grouped by department, if that is the structure used by your office
To the extent readily accessible, we are interested in records that include:
Purchase order number (or equivalent)
Purchase date
Vendor ID or name
Department or issuing entity (if available)
Line item description
Quantity
Unit price
Total price
We recognize that recordkeeping practices differ from one institution to another. We are happy to accept records in any of the following formats:
Spreadsheet exports (preferred)
PDF or Word documents
Standard ERP or finance system reports
Any summary-level purchasing records already maintained by your office
To the extent any portion of the requested records is exempt from disclosure, we ask that the remaining non-exempt segregable portions be released.
For full transparency, this request is for commercial purposes. We will gladly adhere to any policies or procedures University of Connecticut-Avery Point has in place for public records requests, and are open to narrowing, clarifying, or modifying the request to make fulfillment easier on your end.
FOI #26-442 - Subject - Public Information Request
Name - Tif Shen
Affiliation -
I am writing to make a public information request for any or all communications and agreements, since January 1st, 2014, between the [University] and affiliates of AJ Capital Partners regarding branding, marketing, or licensing.
Specifically, affiliates of AJ Capital Partners could include:
• AJ Capital Partners
• AJ Capital Real Estate Fund II
• Graduate Hotels Real Estate Fund III
• Graduate Storrs
• GSCT Owner, LLC
• GSCT Lessee LLC
• Any representatives of the above entities
• Any correspondent with email domains @ajcapitalpartners.com or @ajcpt.com
I request these records electronically. These records are for non-commercial, research use. If the cost to provide these records will exceed $300, please provide an estimate in advance of proceeding. If additional information or narrowing of the request in particular ways would substantially reduce the effort and fee required to fulfill the request, please let me know and I’ll consider altering it as possible.
FOI #26-441 (07-2-26, 9:20 am) - Subject - Sports Sponsorships
Name - Rand Sacks
Affiliation - The Sacks Group
Copies of the following athletic sponsorship agreements:
1. M&T Bank
2. UConn Health
3. Coke
4. Dunkin
5. Nike
6. Xerox
7. Allstate
8. Citgo
9. State Farm
10. Travelers
11. Miller Lite
12. Xfinity
FOI #26-440 (07-2-26, 6:16 am) - Subject - Purchasing Records Request
Name - Isabelle Verebelyi
Affiliation - SciLeads
I am interested in receiving purchasing records from University of Connecticut School of Medicine for purchases made from 12/31/2025 to present. I work for a company called SciLeads and would like to use the information for commercial purposes.
The information I'm interested in includes:
1. Purchase order number or equivalent
2. Purchase order date
3. Line item details
4. Line item quantity
5. Line item price
6. Vendor name
7. Delivery Address
I will happily accept only part of this information if it is not all stored in the same electronic database and would prefer to receive these documents electronically, ideally in Excel format.
FOI #26-439 (07-1-26, 3:02 pm) - Subject - Expenditures
Name - Jennah Mitchell
Affiliation - Acme Research
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, we formally request that your office provide us with public spending information, including both capital and operating expenditures, for payments made by or on behalf of The University of Connecticut Health Center during fiscal year 2026. Specifically, for any payee other than a regular employee or student paid a cumulative total amount of more than $5,000, we seek the payee name, address and the cumulative total dollar
amount paid to the subject payee over the relevant time period. The $5,000 threshold was established to minimize reporting for respondents. This is the same information that your office was kind enough to provide via email for fiscal year 2025.
The information is to be used for research aimed at identifying patterns of spending by public entities. No part of the data will be used as a mailing list and your supplying the information cannot be construed as an endorsement of either your payees or our work.
We are willing to reimburse your office for any reasonable expense incurred in preparing the requested information if an estimate of costs is provided for our approval before the work is performed. We would prefer to receive the data in CSV, text, PDF document, Excel spreadsheet attached to an email, via our file sharing website to our secure server, or on PC-formatted media sent by mail.
Should you have questions or need to advise us to redirect this request, we can be reached at 800-810-3846 or via e-mail at HigherEd@acmeresearch.com. Kindly confirm receipt of this letter and contact our office to let us know your time frame for a response. Thank you for your assistance!
FOI #26-438 (07-1-26, 1:36 pm) - Subject - salaries
Name - Matt Brown
Affiliation - Extra Points
The most current salary information for all current Full Time employees of the athletic department with their name and title. Please provide this in a spreadsheet format if possible.