Public Meetings Conduct
ASK NJ Media made this OPRA request to Spring Lake Heights Borough as part of a batch sent to 54 authorities This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Spring Lake Heights Borough,
This is a request for public records made under OPRA and the common law right of access. I am not required to fill out an official form. Please acknowledge receipt of this message.
Records requested:
Please send your response in PDF form.
All current bylaws, procedures, rules, resolutions or policies regarding the conduct and/or recording of public meetings.
Please include a Record Index with your response.
*A record index that identifies each record requested and the specific legal basis for a denial of access (including redactions) to each record.
Yours faithfully,
ASK NJ Media Co.
Acknowledging receipt of your open public records request dated January
28, 2019 @ 3:18pm for the following:
All current bylaws, procedures, rules, resolutions or policies regarding
the conduct and/or recording of public meetings.
Janine Gillis
Janine Gillis, RMC, CMR
Borough Clerk
Assistant Borough Administrator
Certified Municipal Registrar
Borough of Spring Lake Heights
555 Brighton Avenue
Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey 07762
732.449.3500 phone
732.449.3535 fax
I am in receipt of your Open Public Records Request dated January 28, 2020
for the following;
All current bylaws, procedures, rules, resolutions or policies regarding
the conduct and/or recording of public meetings.
Attached is the following:
1) an excerpt from the Borough of Spring Lake Heights Borough Code Chapter
2 Item 2-3 entitled meetings.
2) Resolution R2020-20 entitled Meeting Schedule
We believe this is fully responsive to your request.
Please be advised that N.J.S.A. 47:1A-6 provides that a person who is
denied access to a government record by the custodian of the record, at
the option of the requestor, may institute a proceeding to challenge the
custodian's decision by filing an action in Superior Court which shall be
heard in the vicinage where it is filed by a Superior Court Judge who has
been designated to hear such cases because of that judge's knowledge and
expertise in matters relating to access to government records; or in lieu
of filing an action in Superior Court, file a complaint with the
Government Records Council established pursuant to N.J.S.A. 47:1A-7.
The right to institute any proceeding shall be solely that of the
requestor. Any such proceeding shall proceed in a summary or expedited
manner. The public agency shall have the burden of proving that the denial
of access is authorized by law. If it is determined that access has been
improperly denied, the court or agency head shall order that access be
allowed. A requestor who prevails in any proceeding shall be entitled to a
reasonable attorney's fee.
Very truly yours,
Janine Gillis
Borough Clerk
Janine Gillis, RMC, CMR
Borough Clerk
Assistant Borough Administrator
Certified Municipal Registrar
Borough of Spring Lake Heights
555 Brighton Avenue
Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey 07762
732.449.3500 phone
732.449.3535 fax
Sorry about that.
Attached is a PDF as requested with my response letter and 2 documents in
response to your request.
Janine
Janine Gillis, RMC, CMR
Borough Clerk
Assistant Borough Administrator
Certified Municipal Registrar
Borough of Spring Lake Heights
555 Brighton Avenue
Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey 07762
732.449.3500 phone
732.449.3535 fax