Good morning,

The Township of Waterford received your Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request on May 19, 2025. The seven-day business deadline for my response is May 29, 2025. This response is being sent to you on the 6th business day since the receipt of your request.

Your records request was as follows: Local cannabis transfer tax, cannabis user tax, social responsibility revenue, and any additional sources of local revenue, such as cannabis application fees from January 2024-present.

Attached are the cannabis tax reports for 2024 and 2025. There are no further documents on file that are responsive to your request, therefore no further documents are being provided.

If your request for access to a government record has been denied or unfilled within the seven (7) business days required by law, you have a right to challenge the decision by the Township of Waterford to deny access. At your option, you may either institute a proceeding in the Superior Court of New Jersey or file a complaint with the Government Records Council (GRC) by completing the Denial of Access Complaint Form. You may contact the GRC by toll-free telephone at 866-850-0511, by mail at P.O. Box 819, Trenton, NJ, 08625, by e-mail at [email address], or at their web site at www.state.nj.us/grc. The GRC can also answer other questions about the law. All questions regarding complaints filed in Superior Court should be directed to the Court Clerk in your County.

Respectfully,

Haley Wolfe, CMR
Waterford Township l Deputy Clerk
2131 Auburn Ave l Atco, NJ 08004
856-768-2300 l Ext. 258
[email address]

-----Original Message-----
From: Giovanna Romero Sarubbi <[OPRA #76245 email]>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2025 6:11 PM
To: Dawn Liedtka, RMC, CMR <[email address]>
Subject: OPRA request - Fiscal cannabis data request

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Dear Clerk,

My name is Giovanna Romero Sarubbi. I am a doctoral student and public finance researcher at Rutgers University-Camden. I am researching the legalization of recreational cannabis and its impact on NJ municipal public finance, while collecting data on related revenue sources.

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. local cannabis transfer tax,

2. cannabis user tax,

3. social responsibility revenue, and

4. any additional sources of local revenue, such as cannabis application fees.

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,

Giovanna Romero Sarubbi

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