Defunct County Entities
Charlie Kratovil made this OPRA request to Middlesex County This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Middlesex County,
Under OPRA and the common law right of access, please provide the agenda and minutes of the most recent meeting of, as well as the most recent report from, each of the following:
Transportation Coordinating Committee
Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority
Cooperative Pricing Advisory Committee
Infrastructure Advisory Committee
South Central Middlesex County Flood Control Commission
Homeland Security Implementation Committee
COOP/COG Steering Committee
Auxiliary Police Academy Advisory Committee
Local Emergency Planning Committee
If you can't find the meeting minutes, please indicate the date of the most recent meeting. Thanks.
Yours faithfully,
Charlie Kratovil
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Dear Charlie Kratovil
Your request requires additional time beyond the seven (7) business days
to process and locate responsive documents. OPRA allows custodians to seek
extensions of time pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(i). Specifically, OPRA
states that, “the requestor shall be advised by the custodian when the
record can be made available. If the record is not made available by that
time, access shall be deemed denied.”
Your request requires an extension of time until October 20, 2023.
Sincerely,
Brenda Bleacher
Keyboarding Clerk III/
County Counsel
Attachments:
[1]Green_Brook_Flood_Control_Commission_Meeting_Minutes_-_10.3.2012.pdf
[2]LEPC_Agenda_6-2022.docx
[3]Approved_Minutes_-_TCC_Meeting_11.25.2014.pdf
[4]Printout-24067-1001-A171936.pdf
[5]TCC_-_Revised_Agenda_-_11.25.2014.pdf
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Dear Charlie:
I write in response to your public records request seeking the agenda and
minutes of the most recent meeting of, as well as the most recent report
from, each of the following:
• Transportation Coordinating Committee
• Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority
• Cooperative Pricing Advisory Committee Infrastructure:
• Advisory Committee South Central Middlesex County Flood Control
Commission:
• Homeland Security Implementation Committee:
• COOP/COG Steering Committee:
• Auxiliary Police Academy Advisory: confidential;
• Committee Local Emergency Planning Committee:
Pursuant to your request, we respond as follows:
• Transportation Coordinating Committee: See attached minutes and
agenda from November, 2014.
• Industrial Pollution Control Financing Authority: there are no
records responsive to this request.
• Cooperative Pricing Advisory Committee Infrastructure: there are no
records responsive to this request.
• Advisory Committee South Central Middlesex County Flood Control
Commission: see attached minutes from the October 3, 2012 meeting
• Homeland Security Implementation Committee: meetings of this committee
are confidential and their records would be exempt for security
purposes pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 and Governor’s Executive Order
21.
• COOP/COG Steering Committee: meetings of this committee are
confidential and their records would be exempt for security purposes
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 and Governor’s Executive Order 21.
• Auxiliary Police Academy Advisory: meetings of this committee are
confidential and their records would be exempt for security purposes
pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1 and Governor’s Executive Order 21.
• Committee Local Emergency Planning Committee: attached please find the
agenda for the 6/9/22 meeting. The minutes for this meeting have not
been published at this time.
I trust that this is responsive to your public records request, but please
let me know if I am in error.
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Dear Middlesex County OPRA Center,
I am a little confused by the response. I am not clear on why some entities are considered to be so top secret that the county can't even release agendas or meeting minutes years later, in some cases after the bodies have become completely defunct/inactive. At what point will the secrecy end?
Additionally, my request was for the most agenda/minutes and report from each of the named entities. In response, I was provided Transportation Coordinating Committee meeting minutes/agenda for 11.25.2014. However, that Committee met regularly for many years thereafter. Indeed I spoke to the committee in June of 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfLDUc3.... Can you confirm if the county has more recent TCC records on file than the ones that were provided?
Can you also confirm that the records provided for the other bodies are from the most recent meeting?
Yours sincerely,
Charlie Kratovil