FD Payroll / Budget Information
Dear Asbury Park City,
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-6(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:
1) For 2024 Actual Payroll for Employees by name and title for Fire Department
2) For 2024 and 2025 Budget Detail lines with transaction detail
3) For 2024 and 2025 Capital Related Purchases Resolutions or Capital Budget Detail for Fire Department Equipment or Vehicles
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,
OPENDATA2025
I am currently out of the office. For assistance please contact Deputy
City Clerk Anthony Cucci at [1][email address]
Thank you.
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Thank you for submitting a request for records.
Your request security key is [1]D2DA1760.
Your request reference number is [2]Request Number: PR-525-2025.
Please have this security key and reference number available when
communicating with our staff regarding your request.
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Requestor,
Currently, part 2 and 3 of your request fails to identify with reasonable
clarity the specific government records sought, as is required by Bent v.
Stafford Police Department, 381 N.J. Super. 30, 37 (App. Div. 2005). At
this time, we request clarification of your OPRA request.
Regarding part 2, "For 2024 and 2025 Budget Detail lines with transaction
detail" do you only want the budget for the fire department? Please
confirm so that we may process your request.
Regarding part 3, "For 2024 and 2025 Capital Related Purchases Resolutions
or Capital Budget Detail for Fire Department Equipment or Vehicles"
your request is overbroad and requiring the City to perform research to
obtain specific documents related to your request. Significantly for
present purposes, OPRA only allows requests for records, not requests for
information. MAG Entm't, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375
N.J. Super. 534, 546-49 (App. Div. 2005). In this regard, OPRA "is not
intended as a research tool ... to force government officials to identify
and siphon useful information." Id. at 546. In other words, a records
custodian is not required "to conduct research among its records... and
correlate data from various government records in the custodian's
possession." Id. at 546-47. To qualify under OPRA then, the request must
reasonably identify a record and not generally data, information or
statistics.
Example of a request that requires research: "all meeting minutes from
2011 in which the Council discussed Jane Doe, Human Resource Manager."
This request is invalid because it requires the custodian to research/read
through all the 2011 minutes to determine when the Council discussed Jane
Doe, Human Resource Manager.
Example of a valid request: "all meeting minutes from 2011."
The requestor would then have to conduct his own research to determine
which minutes contain the subjects in which he is interested.
Please respond in writing and identify the specific Capital Related
Purchases Resolutions or Capital Budget Detail for Fire Department
Equipment or Vehicles so that we may process your request. Failure to
provide written clarification of your request within seven (7) business
days will result in the closure of part 2 and 3 of your OPRA request.
Thank you.
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Dear Anthony Cucci (Asbury Park, NJ),
#2 I would like the Fire department salary and wages and other expenses for those years listed but running the budget detail transaction for 2024 and 2025
#3 Clarify: This would be just running the budget transaction detail for capital for 2024 and 2025 for the entire city of Asbury Park and they we can identify capital related to fire department.
Yours sincerely,
OPENDATA2025
Requestor,
I am in receipt of your OPRA request received by my office on 7/17/2025.
Your request is complete. The response to your request can be found
through our public portal at
https://asburyparknj.justfoia.com/Public... Your request number is
PR-525-2025. Your security key is D2DA1760
Thank you.
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The request [1]Request Number: PR-525-2025 has been completed.
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