As custodian of records, I am in receipt of your OPRA request.  I will
have a response back to you by January 11, 2023, seven(7) business days
from today.
Have a great rest of your day!
Sharon
 
Sharon Silvia
Business Administrator/Board Secretary 
Lacey Township School District
200 Western Blvd
Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734
609-971-2000 xt 1005
609-693-9638

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Please be advised that, to the extent possible, the District has compiled
the responsive emails that you are seeking.  These records consist of
approximately 37,000 emails, 3,821 pages.  These documents need to be
reviewed carefully and redacted to remove exempt information, including
but not limited to student names.  Because such records must be reviewed
carefully to ensure that they are appropriate for release under OPRA
precedent and further do not contain information that would affect an
individual’s legitimate expectation of privacy, the District has attempted
to discern how long such a review would take by reviewing 93 pages.  The
District’s review consumed 30 minutes, and as such the District’s
expectation is that this review would require in excess of 24 hours of
staff time to complete.  

As such, your request would require an extraordinary expenditure of time
and effort to fulfill, and the District is therefore entitled to impose a
special service charge pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-5(c).   This charge is
based upon the estimated actual cost incurred to the District by the
lowest level employee capable of fulfilling the request.  OPRA mandates
that the requestor shall have the opportunity to review and object to the
charge prior to it being incurred. 

In this instance, we have determined that the individual is the
Confidential Secretary to the Business Administrator, whose hourly rate is
$28.   Based upon the District’s estimate of a minimum 24 hours to
complete this review, the estimated minimum special service charge is
$672.  Kindly respond in writing with your acceptance or rejection of this
estimated charge.  If you wish to proceed, you must remit a 50% deposit in
the amount of $336.  We will not begin to process this request until we
receive your written acceptance along with the deposit.  Given staffing
limitations and other District obligations, this request will further take
a substantial amount of additional time to fulfill, and we will advise as
to the same if you wish to proceed with your request.  Alternatively, if
you would prefer to narrow your request in terms of date range and/or
subject matter, please inform us as to your revised request.  If we do not
hear from you, we will treat your request as abandoned.

Thank you, 

Sharon

Sharon Silvia
Business Administrator/Board Secretary 
Lacey Township School District
200 Western Blvd
Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734
609-971-2000 xt 1005
609-693-9638

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