Compensation records for Tennessee State U. CEOs and Former CEOs (Chronicle of Higher Education)
| Submitted | June 21, 2019 |
| Est. Completion | None |
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From: Kent Hoover
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Tennessee Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
(I am seeking full-calendar-year values of compensation earned the following UMES employees, regardless of the role(s) they held for the given calendar year. Take this hypothetical as an example: Ms. Baskin-Glover earned $100,000 in base compensation from January 2018 to June 2018, compensation associated with her CEO and faculty roles. Then, from July 2018 to December 2018, Ms. Baskin-Glover earned $100,000 in base compensation associated with her role as a professor. The value I would be seeking for 2018 would be $200,000.)
The Chronicle wishes to request copies of the following records (however, we will accept information or values when if it reduces the work for your institution’s staff):
1. Records indicating the value of actual base compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar year is 2018.
2. Records indicating the value of actual bonus compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar year is 2018.
3. Records indicating the value of actual severance compensation (or similar compensation), reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar year is 2018.
4. Records indicating the disbursement of any formerly deferred actual compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson. The given calendar year is 2018.
5. Records indicating the value of any remaining reportable actual compensation, reportable in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson.. The given calendar year is 2018.
6. Records indicating the value of any actual compensation disbursed in a given calendar year to Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson from your institution (or affiliated entities) as the result of a contract/vendor business transaction (i.e. nonpayroll). The given calendar year is 2018.
7. Records indicating the value of any nonreportable actual deferred compensation (set aside in an account), recorded in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover. The given calendar year is 2018.
8. Records indicating the value of any nonreportable other actual retirement compensation, recorded in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover. The given calendar year is 2018.
9. Records indicating the value of any actual nontaxable benefits (https://bit.ly/ExecCompNontaxable), recorded in a given calendar year, to Glenda Baskin Glover. The given calendar year is 2018.
10. Records indicating if Glenda Baskin Glover received any of the following perks in calendar year 2018:
-- Provided house, housing allowance, or other housing benefit
-- Provided car, car allowance, or other car benefit
-- Personal services
-- Health, resort, or social club dues
11. The names and titles of the three highest-compensated employees at your institution in calendar year 2018, excluding Glenda Baskin Glover and/or Melvin Johnson. Highest-compensated refers to actual reportable compensation only. Please also provide the corresponding value of reportable compensation earned by these three individuals in 2018.
Information can be provided to the Chronicle via this online survey:
https://chronicle.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6S65cuFRm1kAMFn?Q_DL=b3f6vcL4k1yBWND_6S65cuFRm1kAMFn_MLRP_1T9sAUcIkXJ8U73&Q_CHL=email
* Please provide materials in an electronic, searchable format when possible.
* I am requesting any lookup tables, field layouts code sheets or other documents needed to interpret the data.
* I request you to release all segregable portions of otherwise exempt material. Please consider each record an individual and severable request for purposes of release, exemption or invoking a time extension. If a portion of the requested materials are not immediately available, to the extent possible, please release immediately those records that are available.
* If possible, I request that these records be provided in an electronic format via email or digital download (via Dropbox, for example). If that is not possible, please provide them to me via mail with a CD-ROM. Please send all requested items via email to dan.bauman@chronicle.com.
* If there will be a cost for processing this request greater than $10, please contact me in advance. I would like an itemized list of the request costs, including the number of hours expected to produce the file and the hourly rate of the employee who would be doing the work.
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I am a representative of the news media seeking information as part of a news gathering effort and not for commercial use. This information is being sought on behalf of The Chronicle of Higher Education, a newspaper and news website based in Washington, DC. As such, I request a fee benefit.
If your agency does not maintain these public records, please let me know who does and include the proper custodian's name and address.
If my request is denied in whole or part, I ask that you justify all deletions by reference to specific exemptions of the act.
As I am making this request as a journalist and this information is of timely value, I would appreciate your communicating with me by telephone, rather than by mail, if you have questions regarding this request.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 7 business days, as the statute requires.
Please note that I am a citizen of Tennessee, and am using MuckRock's services to help manage and track my request.
Sincerely,
Kent Hoover
From: Tennessee State University
Mr. Hoover, thank you for your Open Records Act request. Please note that in accordance with the Act, TSU does not provide copies of records to out of state entities/individuals. Based on your email, you appear to be an out of state entity/individual. Thus, I must decline your request. Thank you for your interest in TSU. Laurence
Laurence Pendleton
General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard
Nashville, TN 37209-1561
p: (615) 963-7925
c: (615) 852-9995
laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu>www.tnstate.edu/legal
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Tennessee Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 21, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Tennessee Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 21, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Tennessee State University
Mr. Hoover, I hope to provide an additional response, including a cost estimate and timing, later today or tomorrow. In the meantime, for some reason, I am not locating your proof of Tennessee citizenship in the prior communications. Can you please you’re your TN driver’s license or state ID. Thanks. Laurence
Laurence Pendleton
General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Suite 260
Nashville, TN 37209
Office: 615-963-7925
Cell: 615-852-9995
Email: laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu<mailto:laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu>
Web: www.tnstate.edu/legal<http://www.tnstate.edu/legal>
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVILEGE NOTICE: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication may contain protected ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT, health information, academic information, financial services information, or other legally PRIVILEGED, confidential, or proprietary information. The information contained in this e-mail, including any attachments, addresses legal issues and the opinion(s) of legal counsel retained for the sole purpose of legal representation. It is a legal opinion that is non-discoverable, confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the email to the recipient, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise by return e-mail, permanently delete this e-mail from your computer system, and call the sender at (615) 963-7925 to advise. Thank You
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From: Tennessee State University
Mr. Hoover, I have obtained records responsive to your Open Records Act request. However, please confirm that you are a Tennessee citizen by providing a scanned copy of your Tennessee Driver’s license or state ID. Thanks. Laurence
Laurence Pendleton
General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Suite 260
Nashville, TN 37209
Office: 615-963-7925
Cell: 615-852-9995
Email: laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu<mailto:laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu>
Web: www.tnstate.edu/legal<http://www.tnstate.edu/legal>
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVILEGE NOTICE: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication may contain protected ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT, health information, academic information, financial services information, or other legally PRIVILEGED, confidential, or proprietary information. The information contained in this e-mail, including any attachments, addresses legal issues and the opinion(s) of legal counsel retained for the sole purpose of legal representation. It is a legal opinion that is non-discoverable, confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the email to the recipient, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise by return e-mail, permanently delete this e-mail from your computer system, and call the sender at (615) 963-7925 to advise. Thank You
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From: Muckrock Staff
Hello,
Mr. Hoover's proof of citizenship is attached. Thank you for your help!
MuckRock
[attachment redacted]
From: Tennessee State University
To Whom it may concern: As I have indicated in the past, the Tennessee Open Records Act (ORA) authorizes Tennessee citizens to request and receive copies of records deemed public under Tennessee law. I am concerned regarding efforts to circumvent the ORA by utilizing Tennessee citizens with no interest in the records as “stand-ins” for requests by non-Tennessee citizens. Nonetheless, at this point, as I have also indicated in the past, I am prepared to work directly with a Tennessee citizen in providing requested records (at that point, the Tennessee citizen is free to distribute the records as he or she chooses). This means that Mr. Hoover needs to communicate with me directly on the submission of his Tennessee ID and the request for records.
Accordingly, please have Mr. Hoover submit his Tennessee ID to me and personally confirm his request for the referenced records. Upon receipt of this information directly from Mr. Hoover, I am prepared to provide the requested records. Thank you. Laurence
Laurence Pendleton
General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd., Suite 260
Nashville, TN 37209
Office: 615-963-7925
Cell: 615-852-9995
Email: laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu<mailto:laurence.pendleton@tnstate.edu>
Web: www.tnstate.edu/legal<http://www.tnstate.edu/legal>
CONFIDENTIALITY AND PRIVILEGE NOTICE: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This communication may contain protected ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT, health information, academic information, financial services information, or other legally PRIVILEGED, confidential, or proprietary information. The information contained in this e-mail, including any attachments, addresses legal issues and the opinion(s) of legal counsel retained for the sole purpose of legal representation. It is a legal opinion that is non-discoverable, confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient or the individual responsible for delivering the email to the recipient, please be advised that you have received this email in error and that any use, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise by return e-mail, permanently delete this e-mail from your computer system, and call the sender at (615) 963-7925 to advise. Thank You
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Tennessee Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 21, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Tennessee State University
To whom it may concern: Please see below the most recent email that I submitted regarding your TN Open Records Act request. Our position remains the same as stated in the last email. Laurence
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