records regarding Hamilton Township
Dear Robbinsville Township,
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: all records, invoices, payments received, correspondence and contracts relative to work undertaken on behalf of Hamilton Township, Mercer County New Jersey
Dear Mr. Henderson:
Please clarify your OPRA request and provide us with the dates of the records you are seeking.
Please also clarify your request for "correspondence" by providing us with information that will enable us to find the records you are seeking, such as sender, receiver, date, type of correspondence and/or subject matter.
Sincerely,
Michele Seigfried
Municipal Clerk
Robbinsville Township
2298 Route 33
Robbinsville NJ
609-259-3600 x1107
Fax: 609-259-3645
Dear Michele Seigfried,
January 01, 2021 until present.
corespondence means ALL correspondence to anyone regarding Hamilton Township Mercer County NJ
Attached are some of the contracts and correspondence pertaining to your request. More documents will be forthcoming.
With regard to invoices, payments received, due to staffing shortages, we will need an extension on your request to allow time for the Finance Department to pull these records. We will respond to you again on or before 12/17/21 with this portion of your request. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Sincerely,
Michele Seigfried
Municipal Clerk
Robbinsville Township
2298 Route 33
Robbinsville NJ
609-259-3600 x1107
Fax: 609-259-3645
Attached are the remaining contracts and correspondence I found pertaining to your OPRA request. If these were not the documents you were seeking, please be more specific with your request as a request for "all correspondence" is not a valid OPRA request as per Appellate Court Division decision Elizabeth Mason v. Hoboken - Docket No. A-0508-06T5, that states specificity is required for a proper OPRA request. The court noted that OPRA was not intended to be used as a fishing expedition or as a research tool to compile unknown documents and that a person must know which records he or she wants and ask for those specific documents. You would need to be more specific with request to tell us the exact type record you are seeking (i.e., an email, a letter, resolution, etc.), dates of records, or other pertinent information so that we can find the records. Pursuant to MAG Entertainment, LLC v. Div. of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 375 N.J. Super. 534 (App. Div. 2005), "OPRA does not countenance open-ended searches of an agency's files" and requires requested documents to be identified with "reasonable clarity." Additionally, pursuant to Burke v. Brandes, 429 N.J. Super. 169 (App. Div. 2012), a request for correspondence with another government entity was deemed valid since it "was confined to a specific subject matter that was clearly and reasonably described with sufficient identifying information." The request in Burke was "neither vague nor overbroad" since it "described the records sought with the requisite specificity and narrowed the scope of the inquiry to a discrete and limited subject matter."
Sincerely,
Michele Seigfried
Municipal Clerk
Robbinsville Township
2298 Route 33
Robbinsville NJ
609-259-3600 x1107
Fax: 609-259-3645
Dear Mr. Henderson:
Attached are some of the invoice and payment records you requested. I will be sending you another email with links to the files that are too large to attach to an email.
Sincerely,
Michele Seigfried
Municipal Clerk
Robbinsville Township
2298 Route 33
Robbinsville NJ
609-259-3600 x1107
Fax: 609-259-3645
Dear Mr. Henderson:
Below are the remaining invoice and payment records we found pertaining to
your request. If we have missed anything, please let me know and I can
re-check to see if what you are seeking has been received/created yet.
Please let me know if you have any trouble accessing these documents. The
files themselves were too large to send as an attachment. Please download
these to your computer as the links will only be active for about one
week.
Sincerely,
Michele Seigfried
Municipal Clerk
Robbinsville Township
2298 Route 33
Robbinsville NJ
609-259-3600 x1107
Fax: 609-259-3645
You can view "2-TWP OF HAMILTON-WASTEWATER COLLECTION FEB 2021.pdf" at:
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