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Dear Berkeley Heights Township,
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:
All fire alarm and fire extinguisher invoices (Service, Installation, Inspections Etc.) from 2019 to present that were for government buildings
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,
Tony Michael
Tony,
I received your OPRA request and will process it. Before I do, I would like to clarify 2 things:
1. Please confirm what you mean by "government buildings". Please provide a list of the buildings you are referring to.
2. The Township built a new Municipal Complex which now houses the Township offices, Library, Police, and Recreation. This building was opening in 2021. Were you looking for records prior to the opening of the new building, or would the records related to the new Municipal Complex satisfy your request?
Additionally, in reviewing the form that you provided, we noted you certified that the requested government records will not be used for a commercial purpose.
As a reminder to you, please be aware that “Commercial purpose” is broadly defined under OPRA to include “the direct or indirect use of any part of a government record for sale, resale, solicitation, rent, or lease of a service or any use by which the user expects a profit either through commission, salary, or fee.” N.J.S.A. 47:1A-1.1. If Asset Management Consultants, which we understand to be a for-profit corporation, intends to use the requested records in any way in connection with its for-profit operations—this would constitute a “commercial purpose.”
Please be advised that the intentional failure to certify that a records request is for a commercial purpose is subject to the imposition of civil penalties under N.J.S.A. 47:1A-11(b). In addition, as indicated on the OPRA request form, the certifications made therein are made under penalty of perjury, which is a fourth-degree criminal offense under New Jersey law. N.J.S.A. 2C:28-3(a).
Regards,
Angela Lazzari
Angela Lazzari, RMC
Township Clerk
29 Park Avenue
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908-464-2700 x2220
Dear Angela Lazzari,
Thank you for your reply!
I intend on using these records solely for my own personal purposes NOT for commercial purposes.
I am not sure who “Asset Management Consultants” is?
Yours sincerely,
Tony Michael
Can you please clarify:
1. Please confirm what you mean by "government buildings". Please provide a list of the buildings you are referring to.
2. The Township built a new Municipal Complex which now houses the Township offices, Library, Police, and Recreation. This building was opening in 2021. Were you looking for records prior to the opening of the new building, or would the records related to the new Municipal Complex satisfy your request?
Regards,
Angela Lazzari
Angela Lazzari, RMC
Township Clerk
29 Park Avenue
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908-464-2700 x2220
Dear Angela Lazzari,
Additionally I mean the municipal building
Yours sincerely,
Tony Michael
OK, we can provide records for the Municipal Complex from the opening.
Regards,
Angela Lazzari
Angela Lazzari, RMC
Township Clerk
29 Park Avenue
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908-464-2700 x2220
Tony,
To follow up on this request, the Building Manager has pulled the attached reports for our vendor of items. Please take a look through this list and let me know if this is what you are looking for. I think you may want actual invoices and we can provide, but I would need to know what invoices you are looking for. I would also like to clarify before I start to pull.
If you would like to discuss this to make sure we are on the same page, please give me a call. That may be easiest.
Regards,
Angela Lazzari
Angela Lazzari, RMC
Township Clerk
29 Park Avenue
Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922
908-464-2700 x2220