Back in the middle of January, a resident had requested e-mails from Tim Poley to the Town Board and Supervisor. The two invoices that Tim Poley submitted to the Town for payment stated there were "general e-mail and correspondence". Since the Town is being billed for those e-mails, and because the taxpayers are paying for that billing.....the e-mails for those two invoices were requested.
The invoices that state "general e-mail and correspondence.":
The Town clerk, in February, sent a "denial" stating that there are "no e-mails from Tim Poley for the time requested.", but only in reference to one invoice, not both of them....and there really wasn't a "time period" requested....it was e-mails relating to the invoices. The e-mails that were charged to the taxpayers of Irondequoit.
Denial:
So, the resident asked if this was a denial for both invoices, or just the one invoice, and asked that a denial on a Town letterhead, signed off on by the Supervisor stating that "no such records exist." be given to her, as supported by the FOI laws.
If there are no e-mails to produce from those invoices (they didn't save them....too much time to go looking into e-mail archives....the emails weren't to the Supervisor or a Town Board member...whatever reason there is for them "not existing"...), a letter that states that "no records exist" is supposed to be given to the person who requested the information - this is in keeping with the "Spirit of Open Government" and the laws pertaining to Freedom of Information requests.
No sign off on the denial was given.
Then, at the end of March, the Town Attorney got back to the resident, asking for clarification on what she was asking for in regards to her FOI request from January. You can read the back and forth on that via the above "March" link.
Here is the latest slew of e-mails regarding this simple subject.
To clear things up:
There are two invoices above from Tim Poley that states there was general e-mail and correspondence, the Town was billed for it, and the taxpayers paid for it.
A copy of those e-mails were requested.
If there are no e-mails, a denial, signed off on by the Supervisor (as within the rights of the FOI Laws) is also requested.
That's the scope.
