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FOI #19-170 (06-10-19, 7:55 pm) - Subject - Athletics department football-related documents
Name - Steve Berkowitz
Affiliation - USA Today
1. The contracts and base salaries covering the 2019-20 season for the head football coach, the 10 full-time assistant football coaches and the football team’s head strength/conditioning coach, including but not limited to:
§ Amendments or addenda.
§ Documents reflecting current or intended compensation or benefits to any of the coaches from a third party.
*If the head coach (or any assistant or the strength/conditioning coach) is not covered by a contract, please provide the applicable letter of understanding or other document that outlines his compensation and a copy of any document listing bonuses for which the coach is eligible, including criteria for the bonuses and the amounts that would be paid.
*If the head coach (or any assistant or the strength/conditioning coach) is employed on an at-will basis, please provide a list of each coach’s base salary and a copy of any document listing bonuses for which the coach is eligible, including criteria for the bonuses and the amounts that would be paid.
*If the football team does not have a dedicated strength/conditioning coach, I would like to obtain the compensation information for the athletics department’s head strength/conditioning coach.
2. The most recent athletically related outside-income reports for the head football coach, the 10 assistant football coaches and the football team’s head strength/conditioning coach described above. This is a document that, pursuant to an NCAA rules change in August 2018, athletic personnel must file annually to report income of more than $600 from sources other than the university. If the university has not yet resumed collecting these documents, please state that in the response to this request.
3. An itemized list of incentive bonus amounts actually paid to the current head football coach from May 15, 2018 through May 14, 2019. The goal of this request is to obtain data about bonus payments made for sport-related goals achieved during the 2018-19 football season and/or for academic or other achievements during a full, 12-month period, even though that period may not conform with the school’s fiscal year or academic year or with the coach’s contract year.
4. The university’s contracts for non-conference football games scheduled to be played during the 2019 regular season, including any amendments.
Copy of any contracts for employment and any amendments thereto and any other documents regarding additional compensation including, but not limited to, the NCAA form regarding additional compensation for Dan Hurley, Head Men’s Basketball Coach.
Aggregate number of undergraduate and aggregate number of graduate/professional students at the University of Connecticut whose Expected Family Contributions for the 2018-19 academic year were below $5,486 (putting them in the Pell-Grant-eligibility range) and who also indicated on their FAFSA forms that they have children.
FOI #19-167 (05-31-19, 4:44 pm) - Subject - RFP # JL041217 - Employee Recruiting and Onboarding Software
Name - Jennifer Cukoviq
Affiliation - PageUp People Inc.
We would like to submit a Freedom of Information Act request for RFP # JL041217 - Employee Recruiting and Onboarding Software.
Please include submitted proposals including prices for all vendors and a complete copy of all vendor responses.
I am requesting a list of checks issued by the University of Connecticut since January 1, 2018 that are now over six months old and considered stale-dated / outstanding / uncashed and in the amount of $2,000.00 or greater.
If possible, I would like the list to include only those checks that have not been replaced with reissued checks. I am interested in data pertaining only to vendors, businesses, agencies, etc. and not to students or employees.
Preferably I would like to obtain the list via e-mail attachment in the Excel spreadsheet format. If possible I would like the list to include the payee name, last known address, amount of check, check number, and date of check.
In order to minimize the work on your end, if a similar report already exists that contains more or less information, that would be fine. I do not wish to create a lot of work on your end or expense on my end to obtain this report.
Please let me know if there is a fee to obtain these records.
Thank you very much for your assistance and please let me know if you have any questions.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, I am requesting a digital or hard copy of the university's 1999 Water Supply Plan. This document was prepared for the university to comply with requirements for public water supply planning established by the Connecticut State Department of Public Health.
If there is a fee for obtaining this document, please let me know. I look forward to hearing from you soon.
FOI #19-164 (05-30-19, 2:07 pm) - Subject - RFP No. 300071 McMahan Hall Envelope Repairs (award date 2018 0926)
Name - Marc Loranger
Affiliation - Gale Associates, Inc.
Gale would like to request an appointment to review the proposals of all of the bidders, including the successful firm, Simpson, Gumperts, & Heger, Inc. We would also like to review the score sheets of all of the proposals to gain a better understanding of the selection criteria.
Under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act § 1-200 et seq., I am requesting an opportunity to obtain copies of the following public records: the employment contract and any subsequent amendments for coach Katie Woods.
FOI #19-162 (05-30-19, 1:24 pm) - Subject - Letter from Committee on Undergraduate Writing Initiative and related email correspondence.
Name - David Amdur
Affiliation - University of Connecticut AAUP
I am requesting a letter by the Committee on Undergraduate Writing Initiative (CUWI) sent via email on behalf of the committee by Assoc.Prof. of English Kathleen Tonry to CLAS Assoc. Dean of Humanities Cathy Schulnd-Vials I am also requesting the email response(s) from Schulnd-Vials to Tonry, as well as all emails between the two for the time period 3/1/2019 to 5/30/2019
FOI #19-161 (05-29-19, 4:59 pm) - Subject - Request for Contracts
Name - Josephine Gartrell
Affiliation -
Please let this email serve as a request for contracts/employment agreements, extensions and/or amendments for the following positions:
• Athletic Director
• Head Coach – Men’s Basketball
• Head Coach – Women’s Basketball
• President / Chancellor