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FOI #19-201 - Subject - Orthopaedic Correspondence
Name - Michael Aronow
Affiliation - Orthopedic Associates of Hartford, PC
1. A copy of all orthopaedic surgery clinical faculty employment contracts/ appointment letters generated, signed, offered, or in effect subsequent to May 1, 2019. This includes original employment contracts/ appointment letters for new faculty, renewed/ renegotiated employment contracts/ appointment letters for established faculty, and currently pending contract offers.
2. A list of all documents that you have obtained related to the above requests but were excluded and the reason they were excluded.
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting an electronic listing of all regular-rank faculty not part of a medical school from the University of Connecticut.
Specifically, I'm seeking a spreadsheet, database or delimited text file(s) — not paper records or a PDF created from data — with the following fields for each non-medical faculty member:
• Employee ID,
• Name,
• Primary title,
• Any administrative titles (such as Department Chair, Dean etc.),
• Primary department and school within which department resides,
• Hire date,
• Gender,
• Full-time vs part-time status,
• Indicator for tenure or non-tenure track,
• Base Salary,
• Total Compensation (including institutional base salary, merit or supplemental payments, and incentive or bonus payments, if applicable),
• Educational Degree, and
• Year that Degree was earned.
Please provide this data for all years you have records in electronic or machine-readable form. If you do not have all these fields, please provide all that are available. If the pay data does not reflect total compensation earned by the faculty member, please let me know and explain what is included in the compensation figure that it provided.
FOI #19-199 - Subject - Request for 2017 & 2018 NCAA Financial Reports
Name - Sean Pickett
Affiliation -
I am requesting the University of Connecticut's 2017 & 2018 NCAA financial reports:
NCAA Membership Financial Reporting System report for the reporting year (FY) 2017 NCAA Membership Financial Reporting System report for the reporting year (FY) 2018
Pursuant to the State Freedom of Information Act, Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 1-200 through 1-242, I hereby request the following document(s) and/or copy(ies) thereof:
1. All emails between medical officials within (CMHC) between 9/14/15 - 7/30/16
2. All emails between medical officials within (CMHC) between 2/2/17 - 11/17/17
3. All the names of medical officials having dealt with the above matters.
4. Any and all emails from 7/30/16 - 7/1/18 to and from (CMHC)
5, Any and all names involved in the sending of each email throughout the above dates.
FOI #19-197 (07-3-19, 1:07 pm) - Subject - Financial Records
Name - Danick Baron
Affiliation - SmartProcure
SmartProcure is submitting a public records request to the University of Connecticut Health Center for any and all purchasing records from 2019-03-29 (yyyy-mm-dd) to current. The request is limited to readily available records without physically copying, scanning or printing paper documents. Any editable electronic document is acceptable.
The specific information requested from your record keeping system is:
1. Purchase order number. If purchase orders are not used a comparable substitute is acceptable, i.e., invoice, encumbrance, or check number
2. Purchase date
3. Line item details (Detailed description of the purchase)
4. Line item quantity
5. Line item price
6. Vendor ID number, name, address, contact person and their email address
FOI #19-195 (07-3-19, 10:22 am) - Subject - Public Records Request: Anonymous Ethics And Compliance Hotline Services
Name - Doc Mirino
Affiliation - Net Gain Marketing
With regards to the procurement titled "Anonymous Ethics And Compliance Hotline Services" which was due on 9/12/2018, I am requesting copies of the following documents:
1. A copy of the signed contract(s)
2. A copy of the awarded vendors proposal(s), excluding confidential information.
3. A copy of any documents that show vendors scores and/or ranks during evaluations, including the pricing(percentage rate) submitted by all vendors
4. A list of companies that requested the RFP and a list of companies that submitted a proposal.
5. Any reports over any time period related to contract performance. The most recent month, quarter, or year would be preferred.
6. A copy of the RFP documents and any associated addendums
FOI #19-194 (07-2-19, 4:51 pm) - Subject - merit raises
Name -
Affiliation -
Names of the members of the merit committee in the Department of Mathematics. Amount of merit raise given to each faculty in 2019 along with reasons for the merit distribution, if any.
FOI #19-193 (07-2-19, 3:29 pm) - Subject - Campus Mental Health Counseling
Name - Collin Binkley
Affiliation - The Associated Press
I’d like to submit a request for public records related to mental health counseling at UConn.
Specifically, I would like to request records containing the following data:
- The annual number of on-campus mental health appointments attended by students for each year since 2014 (including year-to-date 2019)
- The number of unique students who received mental health services from the school for each year since 2014 (including year-to-date 2019)
- The campus counseling center’s annual budget for each year since 2014
- The number of licensed mental health counselors employed at the school’s counseling center for each year since 2014
- The average wait time for a non-crisis mental health counseling appointment in 2018
- The average wait time for a crisis counseling appointment in 2018
- The most common concern or concerns reported by students who received mental health services from the school in 2018
As background, I’m requesting these records from the largest public university in every state as part of a project examining the increase in demand for campus mental health services.
FOI #19-192 (07-1-19, 12:44 pm) - Subject - Parking Citations
Name - Colin McNeil
Affiliation - UCONN ITS
Parking citations and appeals for the year 2018 in the storrs campus, anonymized. Fields including citation amount, reason, color of vehicle, make, model. Citation appeals including appeal request letter, appeal action taken, and reason for denial.