Change orders
Jeff Epstein made this OPRA request to Pinelands Regional School District This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Pinelands Regional School District,
This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I certify under penalty of NJSA 2C:28-3 that I have not been convicted of an indictable offense. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
In the daily reports of September 28th:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/sscx9k4rh966te...
And September 30th:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aymisu2wdtry3e...
It states that a change order was submitted.
Please provide all change orders received during the year of 2017, and all responses to them.
Thanks.
Jeff Epstein of Citizens’ Media TV
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SUMMARY
The contract for a roofing project on top of the high school requires that any poor installation, that needs to be redone, must have its costs borne by the roofing contractor. We have evidence that the contractor submitted a “change order” which would instead put that cost on to taxpayers. We requested those change orders and were denied.
DENIAL
Here is the specific denial language from PRSD’s records custodian, Stephen Brennan, as found in the above PDF file:
“Pursuant to the Government Records Council exemption under the Open Public Records Act, (N.J.S.A. 47-1(A)1.1), the District respectfully denies this request as the documents represent deliberative material."
JUSTIFICATION FOR DENIAL
The above-referenced statute is defined at:
http://www.state.nj.us/grc/act.html#defi...
Here is the full text of that statute:
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Definitions: C.47:1A-1.1 Definitions.
As used in P.L.1963, c.73 (C.47:1A-1 et seq.) as amended and supplemented:
"Biotechnology" means any technique that uses living organisms, or parts of living organisms, to make or modify products, to improve plants or animals, or to develop micro-organisms for specific uses; including the industrial use of recombinant DNA, cell fusion, and novel bioprocessing techniques.
Defines custodian of records:
"Custodian of a government record" or "custodian" means in the case of a municipality, the municipal clerk and in the case of any other public agency, the officer officially designated by formal action of that agency's director or governing body, as the case may be.
"Government record" or "record" means any paper, written or printed book, document, drawing, map, plan, photograph, microfilm, data processed or image processed document, information stored or maintained electronically or by sound-recording or in a similar device, or any copy thereof, that has been made, maintained or kept on file in the course of his or its official business by any officer, commission, agency or authority of the State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof, or that has been received in the course of his or its official business by any such officer, commission, agency, or authority of the State or of any political subdivision thereof, including subordinate boards thereof. The terms shall not include inter-agency or intra-agency advisory, consultative, or deliberative material.
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