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I am seeking the athletic department's NCAA financial statement and any attachments or addendums for FY2021. Please consider this a standing request if it has not been submitted yet.
FOI #22-001 (01-3-22, 9:34 am) - Subject - Financial statement
Name - Dan Brechlin
Affiliation - Hearst Connecticut
I am requesting a copy of the equity/revenue-and-expenses report completed by the athletic department for the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 2021 fiscal year. If it has not been submitted yet, please consider this a standing request.
- A list of firms that submitted for the project
- A list of firms that were interviewed
- The name of the firm that was awarded the project
- The scoring sheets for TRC and winning firm to see how we compared
FOI #21-431 (12-29-21, 3:50 pm) - Subject - Electronic Correspondence
Name - Rob Schilling
Affiliation - Energy Policy Advocates
On behalf of Energy Policy Advocates, a non-profit public policy institute incorporated in Washington State, and pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act (Chapter 14 Conn. Gen. Stats.), I hereby request copies of all electronic correspondence and accompanying information, including also any attachments, that a) was sent to or from or which copies (including cc: and bcc:) Prakash Kashwan (Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science) that b) also includes anywhere in an email “thread” or in any attachment(s), one or more of the following, i) Timmons, ii) Brulle, iii) CSSN and/or iv) @Brown.edu, and c) is dated from i) October 1, 2020 through November 1, 2020, inclusive, and those which are dated October 1, 2021 through November 1, 2021, inclusive.
FOI #21-430 (12-24-21, 9:52 am) - Subject - Please, list all the six (6) available rejection reasons pre-established within the system: Apply yourself and
Name - NOUBOUKPO GASSESSE
Affiliation - PERSONAL
List all the six available rejection reasons and state how the system chose those who are admitted by the system and please attach all the different letter templates including those for the applicants admitted by the said system Apply Yourself.
FOI #21-428 (12-22-21, 2:48 pm) - Subject - Copy of executed contract resulting from the Federal Governmental Relations and Related Consulting Services RFP (KA063021)
Name - Jennifer Fabugais
Affiliation - Deltek
Good day! I'm submitting this public records request to obtain a copy of the executed contract (if already available) resulting from the Federal Governmental Relations and Related Consulting Services RFP (KA063021) which closed last July 26, 2021. Please advise me of any potential fees prior to processing this request. Thank you.
1. Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act please provide all employment benefit documents that the University of Connecticut afforded or provided to employees including but not limited Vacation time, tuition reimbursements, dependent care, retirement plans. sick days. paid holidays, scheduled salary increases etc, in 2019/2020
2. Please provide all the similar benefits mentioned in item 1 above that were offered to Thomas Varghese as part of his employment offer package when he was offered employment as an Ergonomist in the time frame 2019/2020 at UCONN.
a. Please include the email/document offer of benefits made to Thomas Varghese on the date 1/9/20 @ approximately 2:07pm by a Marisa C Leone
3. Please provide documents or internal emails / communications /memorandums within UCONN discussing any revisions or changes to these benefits originally offered to Thomas Varghese on 1/9/2020
4. Please provide all documents or emails messages that were sent to Thomas Varghese indicating a change in the benefits identified in 1a above.
5. Please provide all copies of all written communications/emails/memos within UConn departments or staff members discussing changes to the job posting mentioned above
6. In your email dated July 20th 2020- you stated “While the position was posted as full time,” – Please provide the location /website where this job was posted as full time.
7. If the Ergonomist job was posted on any external job posting board or website, please provide copies of any job posting fees or expenses incurred by UCONN to post this job.
FOI #21-426 - Subject - East Road Golf Project and Alternative Sites
Name - Laura Tordenti
Affiliation -
Pursuant to the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), I am requesting the following information:
• All plans and proposals related to the proposed East Road/Golf Project. This should include all maps, surveys, proposed schematics, water table information, environmental surveys, financial information, and time frame.
• All soil reports, wetlands reports, water table reports, and evaluations conducted
• All approval information regarding the Survey/East Road/Golf Project.
• All emails, messages and calendaring appointments related to the Survey/Golf Project on East Road from January 1, 2021 through December 21, 2021.
• All emails to the surveying company regarding the Survey/East Road/Golf project.
• All conceptual drawings for the East Road/Golf Project.
• All proposed budget information regarding the Survey/East Road/Golf project or alternative site.
• All plans and proposals related to alternative sites.
• All emails, messages, and calendaring appointments relating to any alternative sites proposed for the Golf project from January 1, 2021 through December 21, 2021.