Unauthorized Payments made By Nicholas Brown (Shared Business Administrator)
Dear Pinelands Regional School District,
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:
Per the Board of Education Meeting on February 14th, 2022 and the Corrective Action Plan set forth please provide the following information for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30th, 2021:
1.) Copies of cancelled checks of the four (4) unauthorized payments made by your office.
2.) Copy of NJ STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION notice stating when Pinelands School District quarterly taxes are due.
3.) Document showing date those quarterly taxes were paid.
4.)Letter from State of NJ advising the penalty charged to the school for your negligence in filing the school's taxes improperly.
Since this is all information readily available, I should not expect you would need an extension and would be able to provide said information immediately; since in your own words at this Board Meeting this is a Corrective Action Plan that you made for yourself.
Regards,
Stephanie Johnson
As you are aware, I am the Business Administrator for the Pinelands Board
of Education (the “Board”), which conducts and supervises the schools of
the Pinelands School District (the “District.”) As such, I am in receipt
of your June 12, 2022 OPRA request. Your request sought the following:
Per the Board of Education Meeting on February 14th, 2022 and the
Corrective Action Plan set forth please provide the following information
for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30th, 2021:
1.) Copies of cancelled checks of the four (4) unauthorized payments made
by your office.
2.) Copy of NJ STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION notice stating when Pinelands
School District quarterly taxes are due.
3.) Document showing date those quarterly taxes were paid.
4.)Letter from State of NJ advising the penalty charged to the school for
your negligence in filing the school's taxes improperly.
Please allow this email to serve as notice that I will require an
extension of time until July 22, 2022 to respond to your request. OPRA
allows for the Records Custodian to advise of the need for an extension
pursuant to N.J.S.A 47:1A-5.i. Specifically, OPRA states that, “the
requestor shall be advised by the custodian when the record can be made
available. If the record is not made available by that time, access shall
be deemed denied.”
Please be advised I am the Business Administrator for the Pinelands
Regional Board of Education (the “Board”), which conducts and supervises
the schools of the Pinelands Regional School District (the “District”). As
such I am in receipt of your OPRA request which sought the following:
February 14th, 2022 and the Corrective Action Plan set forth please
provide the following information for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30th,
2021:
1.) Copies of cancelled checks of the four (4) unauthorized payments made
by your office.
I am not in receipt of any documents responsive to your request.
2.) Copy of NJ STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION notice stating when Pinelands
School District quarterly taxes are due.
I am not in receipt of any documents responsive to your request.
3.) Document showing date those quarterly taxes were paid.
IRC 6103, prohibits the disclosure of this information, and as such, this
information is not subject to disclosure pursuant to Executive Order #26-
Governor James E. McGreevey (2002.)
4.)Letter from State of NJ advising the penalty charged to the school for
your negligence in filing the school's taxes improperly.
I am not in possession of any documents responsive to this request.