Please see the acknowledgement below.
 
Kathryn M. Noonan
Office of the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners
Advisory Board Coordinator and OPRA Compliance
Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor
10 Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth,  New Jersey   07207
Telephone 908 527-4157  Facsimile 908 558-0915  Email: 
[1][email address]
 
To:     EM Smith
 
From:   James E. Pellettiere, RMC, QPA, Clerk of the Board
 
Date:   September 16, 2021
 
Re:     Open Public Records Act (OPRA) Request(s)
 
This office received your OPRA request for records as to OEM on September
17, 2021. The OPRA law requires that a response be provided within seven
(7) business days, beginning the first business day after receipt of the
request.  We will have a response prepared by September 28, 2021. 
 
We will contact you and provide a page count and price, should you wish to
purchase any copies.  You also have the option of viewing the records in
the Clerk of the Board’s office.  If the records are available
electronically, they can be provided via email if preferred.  There is no
charge for email or to inspect a document.
 
Pursuant to Ordinance 710-2010, adopted on October 14, 2010, the following
fee schedule applies for photocopies: first page to tenth page: no charge;
eleventh page and every page thereafter: $.05 per page for documents that
are letter-sized or smaller, and $.07 per page for documents that are
legal-sized or larger.  There shall be a limit of thirty (30) pages
forwarded via facsimile to any requestor, per request, and the fee
schedule is as follows: first page to tenth page: no charge; eleventh page
to thirtieth page: $.05 per page for letter-sized documents, and $.07 per
page for legal-sized documents.
If you wish to have records mailed or faxed to you, we kindly ask that you
remit payment to the following address:
 
Office of the Clerk of the Board
Union County Administration Building – 6^th Floor     
10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, NJ 07207
 
Please do not send cash; kindly make a check or money order payable to the
County of Union.  We will provide the documents upon receipt of payment. 
If no information is available, or falls under a category protected by
law, our response will provide an explanation.
 
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.  However, it may take longer to complete requests for
immediately accessible documents depending on the amount of material
requested, medium requested, if redaction is required, or if records are
in storage.  For all other records: documents stored in archive, those
that require redaction as provided by law, or requests that require an
extensive amount of work to complete may take longer than seven (7)
business days to compile. 
In accordance with the OPRA, requests that require an extensive amount of
effort to complete may be subject to a special service charge in addition
to the statutory per-page fees.  Special service fees, if applicable, are
determined on a case-by-case basis and you will be informed of the charge
prior to it being incurred.  The archive fee is $2.00 per box—in addition
to the statutory per-page copy fees—and you will be informed of any fees
prior to the charge being incurred.
 
If your OPRA request is denied, you have a right to appeal the decision. 
You may take your appeal to 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/.
 
We thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation and patience
while we work to fill your request. If you have any questions, please call
this office at (908) 527-4178 or (908) 527-4157.  
   
 
 
 

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To E.M. Smith:
 
Please be advised that the County has no requests from Piscataway OEM
requesting assistance in covering the fireworks. We do have a CAD record
of the Fanwood Rescue Squad going to this event that was requested by the
Fanwood Rescue Squad to document their response, a copy of which is
attached.  Thank you.
 
Kathryn M. Noonan
Office of the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners
Advisory Board Coordinator and OPRA Compliance
Union County Administration Building, 6^th Floor
10 Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth,  New Jersey   07207
Telephone 908 527-4157  Facsimile 908 558-0915  Email: 
[1][email address]
 
 
 

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