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FOI #22-043 - Subject - UCONN Gant Bldg (Internal Case #17-28)
Name - Hope Redding
Affiliation -
• Environmental Testing & Balancing PHASE 1 for Wk ending 10.17.21 through to the present
• Environmental Testing & Balancing PHASE 2 for Wk ending 10.17.21 through to the present
• Ferguson Electric PHASE 1 for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Ferguson Electric PHASE 2 for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanic PHASE 1 for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanic PHASE 2 PLMB for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Ferguson Mechanic PHASE 2 HVAC for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Scholar Painting PHASE 1 for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Scholar Painting PHASE 2 for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
• Sign Pro PHASE 2 for Wk ending 10.16.21 through to the present
I am writing to request a complete record of all University of Connecticut real estate holdings, surface acres, and/or acreage with mineral rights held in fee or trust. My request includes lands in the United States and abroad.
I am also requesting any parcel descriptions or digital map files (e.g. shape files) with locations of those holdings, if it exists.
FOI #22-041 (01-25-22, 12:42 am) - Subject - Uncashed Checks
Name - Mark Warren
Affiliation -
EY Unclaimed Property Services, LLC (“EYUPS”) respectfully requests copies of financial records pertaining to uncashed checks, warrants or vouchers issued by the University and/or any of its sub-agencies, departments, offices, or other authorized authorities. Such payments shall currently remain in an outstanding/uncashed status as of today, still payable to the payee, be at least four (4) months old, and have yet to be reported as unclaimed property.
Please provide the following details, if available:
• Dollar amount
• Name of payee/recipient due the funds
• Address of the payee/recipient due the funds
• Date associated with the obligation (i.e., check issue date)
• Check identification number
• Name of originating agency
Kindly provide this information to me in electronic format at upsources@ey.com (e.g. Excel).
I would like to request the results of all the student trustee elections dating back to the elections that took place in 2017 to present. I am looking for the names, vote counts, and home campuses of all candidates including the winner for both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
FOI #22-039 (01-22-22, 6:58 am) - Subject - Coaches Contracts
Name - Jeffrey Truedson
Affiliation -
I am requesting an opportunity to obtain copies of the following public records: the most updated long-form employment contracts, appointment letters, and 21-22 salary information for men's basketball coaches and support staff members: Kimani Young, Tom Moore, Kevin Freeman, Eric Youncofski, Tripp Doherty, Michael Rehfeldt, Taliek Brown, and Paul Wetterman III.
FOI #22-038 (01-20-22, 11:42 am) - Subject - Athletic Contracts
Name - Kevin McReynolds
Affiliation -
Hello!
I would like to request the following contracts:
- Athletics Big East TV contract
- Athletics Football TV contract
- Athletics Big East Conference Contract
- Athletics Jim Mora Contract
- Athletics Learfield Contract
-Athletics Sidearm contract
FOI #22-037 (01-19-22, 10:12 am) - Subject - Ethics Complaint and Investigation Report
Name - Peter Zavickas
Affiliation - Self
On 5-29-20 a report was submitted to the Office of Institutional Equity in regards an inappropriate relationship between two employees (OIE Report # UOC-20-05-0006). This complaint was investigated by Alexa Lindauer with OIE and she completed the investigation on June 19th 2020. Please provide me with a copy of Lindauer's report in regards to her investigation into this matter.
I would like to make a request for records of licensed technology agreements related to plant varieties and germplasm between University of Connecticut and industries.
I am interested in the licensing agreements that have been made between 2000-2020, with whom (i.e. what commercial industry), for what plant products (i.e. name of the plant variety/trait), the kind of agreement, and the Department of the inventor.
I have received this information from other institutions in the form of plant variety licensing contract metadata, as a spreadsheet including the following:
LICENSEE (COMPANY NAME)
EFFECTIVE DATE OF AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT TYPE (e.g. Exclusive, Master, etc.)
DEPARTMENT THAT THE VARIETY CAME FROM
SPECIES OF LICENSED VARIETY
NAME OF LICENSED VARIETY
I understand that the contents of these contracts are proprietary and therefore cannot be disclosed, but to my knowledge the high-level information in this request ought to be available for public record.
This information is likely stored by the Technology Commercialization Services. Under the technologies made available by this office I am interested in Plant Variety and Plant Trait agreements, likely listed in the technology categories.
I understand the wait time of public records access may be slower due to Covid-19, and that this may be a large request. If this will take substantial time to complete, I am happy to wait the needed time, but please let me know an estimated time and, if applicable, the cost of the request to ensure it would be within reason.
FOI #22-035 (01-18-22, 4:19 pm) - Subject - Athletics documents
Name - Steve Berkowitz
Affiliation - USA Today
The revenue-and-expenses report completed by the athletic department for the National Collegiate Athletic Association for the 2021 fiscal year. It is a multi-page document that was due to be filed with the NCAA on Jan. 15, 2022. It contains more than 40 revenue and expense categories, followed by specific breakdowns of each of those categories, by sport and gender. I am requesting the full report, including the detail tables and the entire Statement of Revenues and Expenses that appears at the end of the report. PLEASE NOTE: The NCAA report is different than the equity report that is sent to the U.S. Department of Education for Title IX compliance.
Pursuant to applicable authority, I am writing to request a copy of the NCAA Annual Financial Report provided to the NCAA for the following fiscal years:
1. FY 2020-2021 NCAA Financial Report