Dear Mr. Littles,

Please see the acknowledgment below.

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [1][Union County request email]

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To:       Mike Littles

From:   James E. Pellettiere, RMC, QPA, Clerk of the Board

Date:    11/6/2023

Re:       Open Public Records Act (OPRA) Request(s) Acknowledgment

This office received your OPRA requests for Sender, recipient & subject of
CM Oatman's emails for 1/1/2022 - 1/15/2022 & Dir. Taylor's emails for
11/15/19 - 11/30/19; list of labor unions that represent UC employees on
11/6/2023. OPRA requires that a response be provided within 7 business
days, beginning the first business day after receipt of the request. We
will have a response prepared by 11/17/2023. Records are typically
provided to requestors in electronic format, for which there is usually no
cost. However, the County will advise of any fees before the charge is
incurred.

OPRA ordinarily grants immediate access to budgets, bills, vouchers,
contracts (including collective negotiations agreements and individual
employment contracts), and public employee salary and overtime
information. While the County makes every effort to provide immediate
access to such documents, processing may take longer depending on the
amount of records requested, medium requested, if documents are in use, if
redaction is required or documents are in storage, or if the request
requires extensive work to complete. The same is true for requests for
non-immediate access documents. When additional time is needed to process
a request, the County provides requestors with written updates
accordingly.

If no records are available, or the record(s) are exempt in accordance
with OPRA, the County will advise accordingly; if your OPRA request is
denied, you have a right to appeal the decision. You may file your appeal
with the New Jersey Government Records Council (GRC) or the New Jersey
Superior Court, as provided by N.J.S.A. 47:1A-6 and 7. For additional
information on the appeal process, please visit:
[2]http://www.nj.gov/grc/register/appeal/. Thank you in advance for your
anticipated cooperation and patience while we work to fulfill your OPRA
request.

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Dear Mr. Littles,

I’m writing to advise some additional time is needed to review and respond
to your November 6, 2023, OPRA requests for sender, recipient & subject of
CM Oatman's emails for 1/1/2022 - 1/15/2022 & Dir. Taylor's emails for
11/15/19 - 11/30/19; list of labor unions representing UC employees.

Please be advised some additional time is needed to review and respond to
your requests. Respectfully, we expect to respond by November 27, 2023.

Thank you for your anticipated understanding and patience while we work to
complete your OPRA requests. – Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [1][Union County request email]

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Dear Mr. Littles,

Please be advised we are in the final stages of our response.
Respectfully, we expect a final response to be issued by December 5, 2023.
Thank you for your patience. – Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [1][Union County request email]

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From: Opra
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2023 4:53 PM
To: 'Mike Littles' <[OPRA #54952 email]>;
'Mike Littles' <[email address]>
Subject: 11/6/23 OPRA Request #1038-2023 Update - Emails & Unions
Importance: High

Dear Mr. Littles,

I’m writing to advise some additional time is needed to review and respond
to your November 6, 2023, OPRA requests for sender, recipient & subject of
CM Oatman's emails for 1/1/2022 - 1/15/2022 & Dir. Taylor's emails for
11/15/19 - 11/30/19; list of labor unions representing UC employees.

Please be advised some additional time is needed to review and respond to
your requests. Respectfully, we expect to respond by November 27, 2023.

Thank you for your anticipated understanding and patience while we work to
complete your OPRA requests. – Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [2][Union County request email]

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Dear Mr. Littles,

This email is a formal and complete response to your various OPRA requests
listed below.

OPRA Request #1038-2023

Sender, recipient & subject of CM Oatman's emails for 1/1/22 - 1/15/22 &
Dir. Taylor's emails for 11/15/19 - 11/30/19; list of labor unions
representing UC employees.

OPRA Request #1048-2023

Sender, recipient, and subject of CM Oatman's emails from 10/17/21 to
10/31/21.

OPRA Request #1052-2023

Sender, recipient, and subject of CM Oatman's emails from 11/1/21 to
11/15/21.

Please be advised that this request will take extensive effort to process.
The estimated processing time is 8 hours. In accordance with N.J.S.A. 47:
1A-5c, a special service charge will apply to process this request. Using
the hourly rate of a Keyboarding Clerk 1 ($32.23), the approximate special
service fee is $257.84. Dedicating approximately 2 hours per week to this
task, subject to employee availability depending on workload, processing
will take an estimated 4 weeks.

Please note that the County has made every effort to ensure that the
employees assigned to this task have been identified as the minimum
personnel necessary to properly and effectively process this request, in
terms of both the total number of hours and in hourly wage. Upon receipt
of a check or money order for the service charge, payable to the County of
Union, the request will be processed. Please note that the above hours and
charges are only an estimate, and you will only be charged for the number
of hours actually expended to process your request. (The service charge
doesn’t include the statutory per-page copying charge, should you wish to
buy paper copies of the documents.) If the total review time exceeds the
estimate, an additional charge may apply. If the total review time is less
than estimated, a refund for the difference will be issued to you.

Thank you for your patience while we worked to respond to your OPRA
requests. – Marlena

Marlena M. Russo

OPRA Compliance Manager

Office of the Clerk of the Board

Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor

10 Elizabethtown Plaza

Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915 / Email: [1][Union County request email]

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