Contracts, Vendor Lists, Employee Info
Dear Red Bank Borough,
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:
All contracts and vendor lists, and everyone who has been paid by the town or board in the last year (1/1/21-present).
Yours faithfully,
Friends of Monmouth County
Please be advised, I will be out of the office on Friday, December 3,
2021 and Monday, December 6, 2021. I will return to the office on
Tuesday, December 7, 2021. If you need immediate assistance, please
contact Bonnie Thomas at [Red Bank Borough request email].
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Pamela Borghi, RMC, CMR
Municipal Clerk/Registrar/PIO
Borough of Red Bank
90 Monmouth Street
Red Bank, NJ 07701
732-530-2740
This email is to acknowledge receipt of your OPRA request dated 12/6/2021
and received via email on 12/7/2021. This response is being provided on
the fifth business day following the receipt of your request.
Please be advised, your request for “All contracts and vendor lists, and
everyone who has been paid by the town or board in the last year…” is
considered too vague and is not a proper request under the OPRA Statute.
Please be advised, we do not maintain a list of every contract. Also, we
would need clarification on what is meant by "everyone" who has been paid
by the town.
The Open Public Records Act provides for citizen access to specifically
identified public records. Searches, requests for information or requests
that ask questions are NOT valid OPRA requests.
According to the Government Records Council publication, “A Citizen’s
Guide to the Open Public Records Act,” OPRA requests must be specific:
Requestors must be as specific as possible when requesting records. For
example, requestors must identify types of records, dates, parties to
correspondence, subject matter, etc.
Please resubmit your request with the name of the records, the date of the
records and the subject matter of the specific records you are seeking.
If you are not aware of existing, identifiable records, you may wish to
schedule a file review with the relative department(s). For file review,
you should contact the proper department to make an appointment to review
their files. Contact numbers are on our website at [1]www.redbanknj.org.
This will close this OPRA Request.
Dear Pam Borghi,
To clarify we are looking for:
All contracts and vendor lists that have been authorized by the town including accounting, engineering, legal and architecture, and everyone who works for a professional service vendor paid by the town in the last year (1/1/21-present).
Yours sincerely,
Friends of Monmouth County
We do not maintain those types of lists and I have been informed by our
Finance Office that they cannot run a search under those parameters. If
you are aware of a specific vendor or project, please let us know and we
will see if we can accommodate your request.
Dear Pam Borghi,
Can we get a list of all submitted Request for Proposals and whether the RFP was accepted or denied
Yours sincerely,
Friends of Monmouth County
This email is to acknowledge receipt of your OPRA request dated and
received via email on 12/28/2021. This response is being provided on the
fifth business day after the receipt of your request.
Please be advised, in regard to your request for "a list of all submitted
Requests for Proposals...," no such record exists. Please note,
Searches, requests for information or requests that ask questions are NOT
valid OPRA requests.
To the best of my knowledge, no other records exist that would be
responsive to your request. If you are aware of a specific existing
document that has not been provided, please clearly identify that record
by name, date and subject matter.
This will close this OPRA request. If you seek additional records, please
submit a new OPRA request. Please feel free to contact me with any
questions. Thank you.