Gonzalez Moonlights at USF

Gonzalez moonlights at USF; he made $14,000 last year in addition to the $275,000 from Hillsborough County School Board. Candy's husband is a bankruptcy judge in Ft. Lauderdale. lee

From: twinkobie [mailto:tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 11:53 AM
To: tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com
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Dr. Genshaft:

The email exchange below will give you the flavor of the kind of attitude your counselor Mr. Solis has toward a member of the public that pays his salary. It is not acceptable either in tone nor in willingness to answer a public-information question that a citizen is entitled to ask and entitled to get a speedy response to.

I ask you, your board, and your chief counsel to tell me if what Mr. Solis says about hiring the law firm of Tom Gonzalez is indeed coincident with the university's practice of hiring and whether it is coincident with the equal-opportunity hiring laws and the equal-opportunity requirements attached to federal grants to the university. If so, I shall ask for elected officials' and the EEOC's attention to your hiring protocols and the federal government to do a compliance review of the same. Whatever Jesuitical construction you put on not employing him, you hired him for a job--at least one, the Al Arian case---and paid him $33,000 of tax money for his services. That's employment in anybody's book.

Please vouchsafe this citizen a response to this question. I don't know the email formula for Dr. Roy Weatherford of the union's email. Pray forward it to him.

Respectfully,

Lee Drury De Cesare
15316 Gulf Boulevard 802
Madeira Beach, FL 33708
tdecesar@tampabay.rr.com

copy: Dr. Roy Weatherford, faculty union USF

From: Solis, Gerard D. [mailto:GSolis@usf.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:09 PM
To: 'lee de cesare'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: RE: public information

Dear Lee Drury de Cesare:

If you will review your request, which appears below, you will see that you asked for Mr. Gonzalez's "salary". This word choice is consistent with your question as to whether Mr. Gonzalez is employed by USF:

I would like to know if Tom Gonzalez is the attorney the university uses in its legal business with the workers and faculty, and if those are not areas of his employment at USF, is he at all employed by the university at all, in what area, and what was his salary last year?

We answered that question for you in our response (see below). We can only respond to what you specifically ask for and not what you may have meant or intended.

I interpret your email below as a new public records request because it’s asking something different than your original request seeking salary information. In response to your latest request, I can inform you as of the date of this email there are no records responsive to your request because we have not received a bill for Mr. Gonzalez’s services. This concludes USF’s response to your request of 01/26/10.

Gerard D. Solis
Senior Associate General Counsel
University of South Florida
Office of the General Counsel
4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250
Tampa, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-2131
Fax: (813) 974-5236
gsolis@admin.usf.edu



From: lee de cesare [mailto:tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 12:40 AM
To: Solis, Gerard D.
Subject: FW: public information

Mr. Solis: The Attorney General has said that 48 hours is a reasonable turnaround time for a public-information request. Mine has languished longer than that by far. I ask again to know how much money the university paid the Gonzalez firm last year for its services.

Lee Drury De Cesare

From: Mohn, Lori [mailto:lmohn@usf.edu] On Behalf Of Solis, Gerard D.
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 4:35 PM
To: 'tdecesar@taMPAbay.rr.com'
Cc: Mohn, Lori
Subject: FW: public information

Dear Lee Drury de Cesare:

The University utilizes the law firm of Thompson, Sizemore & Hearing, P.A. on various legal issues. In response to your request, attached please find a copy the agreement between Mr. Gonzalez’s law firm and the University of South Florida. Mr. Gonzalez is not employed by the University of South Florida.

Sincerely,

Gerard D. Solis
Senior Associate General Counsel
University of South Florida
Office of the General Counsel
4202 E. Fowler Ave., ADM 250
Tampa, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-2131
Fax: (813) 974-5236
gsolis@admin.usf.edu

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