Dear Lakewood Township,

Please accept this electronic request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form or use a particular software platform to submit my request per NJSA 47:1A-5(f), which states that an email from a requestor including all of the information required on the adopted form shall suffice in place of a completed form as a valid government record request.

I HAVE NOT been convicted of any indictable offense under the laws of New Jersey, any other state, or the United States.

I WILL NOT use the requested government records for a commercial purpose.

I AM NOT seeking records in connection with a legal proceeding.

Records requested:

Advertisement page for the 2026 introduced budget that contains the summary of revenue and appropriations, debt service and employee head counts for the current and prior budget year

2026 Introduced User Friendly Budget document

Budget transaction and a paid purchase order status reports, produced from your QuickBooks/MSI/Edmunds/ClearGov/Munidex/CivicPlus, etc accounting software package, that include the:
- date,
-amount,
- description,
and
- vendor for purchases and transaction type for the budget report

for:

2026 Snow Removal Costs (23-215),
as found on Budget Sheet 20
for the current calendar year through today

Snow Removal (26-300),
as found on Budget Sheet 15a
and
the Snow Removal Trust Fund,
as reported on Sheet 6b of the 2025 Annual Financial Statement,

for the full calendar year, years 2021 through 2025,
and January 1, 2026 through the present.

Please provide the respective budget transaction and paid purchase order status reports as PDF documents.

My preferred delivery method for response(s) to this request is by E-mail as attachments. Please confirm you have received this request. If you are not the custodian of records, please forward my request to that person and provide their email address to me for future reference.

Yours faithfully,

Claude Debussy