The Township of Livingston Clerk's Department is in receipt of your OPRA request. Pursuant to NJSA 47:1A-5(i), you shall receive a response in no more than seven (7) business days, with day one starting the day after the request has been received. (Holidays and Townhall closings do not count as business days).

Mr. Zed Kelly,

Please see the responses below for the OPRA and Common Law record request
received on July 2, 2024.  Answers are in bold.

This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the
common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an
official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.

Records requested:

1. All communications between Adam Loehner
([1][email address]) and John Drumm
([2][email address]) between March 1, 2023 and September 1, 2023
(6 month period)

Please be advised that a special service charge* will need to be assessed
in order to fulfill your request as the IT and Clerk’s Department have
spent over 15 hours in identifying and extracting the responsive emails,
as well as reviewing the records for redactions.  The Clerk’s Department
has identified 127 pages of records and estimates that it will take 10
hours to make the redactions and create the corresponding Vaughn Index
citing the OPRA exemptions. The lowest paid hourly rate of the individual
capable of fulfilling this requirement is $28.46, and as it is estimated
to take another 10 hours, the special service charge is estimated to be
$284.60.

The Police Department has advised that their review of the records and
corresponding redactions will take approximately 6 hours and the lowest
paid hourly rate of the individual capable of fulfilling this requirement
is $37.92, for a special service charge of approximately $227.52.  

The estimated total of the special service charge is $ 512.12 ($284.60 +
$227.52).

Please notify our office by July 23, 2024 if you want the Clerk’s Department to
proceed with this request.  If we do not receive notification on whether
to proceed as is, with payment, or a revised request from you within
seven business days, July 23, 2024, this OPRA request will be deemed
closed.

*[OPRA allows public agencies to impose special service charges whenever
the nature, format, manner of collation, or volume of a government
record embodied in the form of printed matter to be inspected,
examined, or copied pursuant to this section is such that the
record cannot be reproduced by ordinary document copying equipment
in ordinary business size or when fulfilling a request requires
an extraordinary expenditure of time and effort. See N.J.S.A.
47:1A-5.c. Special service charges must be based upon the actual direct
cost of providing the copy or copies. OPRA mandates that the requestor
shall have the opportunity to review and object to the charge
prior to it being incurred. See N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5.c.]

2. All communications between Barry Lewis
([3][email address]), John Drumm ([4][email address]),
and Gary Marshuetz ([5][email address]) regarding Adam
Loehner's hiring between February 1, 2022 and August 1, 2022 (6 month
period)

                Please see the two emails attached. 

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