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Office of the Secretary of the District &
Custodian of Records Northeast Ambulance & Fire Protection District 314-382-1501 |
RESPONSE TO
REQUEST FOR PUBLIC RECORDS
UNDER THE
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Greetings:
This
letter is to acknowledge receipt of your request for public records under the
Missouri Sunshine Law, Section 610.010 RSMo.
We reply to your request as follows:
[ ] The following documents that you requested are not public records.
The
above documents that you requested are not public records because they fit
within the exception to the Sunshine law, Section 610.021 RSMo, checked below:
1. ( ) Legal actions, causes of action or litigation involving a public governmental body and any confidential or privileged communications between a public governmental body or its representatives and its attorneys;
2. ( ) Leasing, purchase or sale of real estate by a public governmental body where public knowledge of the transaction might adversely affect the legal consideration therefor. However, any minutes, vote or public record approving a contract relating to the leasing, purchase or sale of real estate by a public governmental body shall be made public upon execution of the lease, purchase or sale of the real estate;
3. ( ) Hiring, firing, disciplining or promoting of particular employees by a public governmental body when personal information about the employee is discussed or recorded;
5. ( ) Nonjudicial mental or physical health proceedings involving identifiable persons, including medical, psychiatric, psychological, or alcoholism or drug dependency diagnosis or treatment;
7. ( ) Testing and examination materials, before the test or examination is given or, if it is to be given again, before so given again;
9. ( ) Preparation, including any discussions or work product, on behalf of a public governmental body or its representatives for negotiations with employee groups;
10. ( ) Software codes for electronic data processing and documentation thereof;
11. ( ) Specifications for competitive bidding, until either the specifications are officially approved by the public governmental body or the specifications are published for bid;
12. ( ) Sealed bids and related documents, until the bids are opened; and sealed proposals and related documents or any documents related to a negotiated contract until a contract is executed, or all proposals are rejected;
13. ( ) Individually identifiable personnel records, performance ratings or records pertaining to employees or applicants for employment;
14. ( ) Records which are protected from disclosure by law;
17. ( ) Confidential or privileged communications between a public governmental body and its auditor, including all auditor work product;
18. ( ) Operational guidelines and policies developed, adopted, or maintained by any public agency responsible for law enforcement, public safety, first response, or public health for use in responding to or preventing any critical incident which is or appears to be terrorist in nature and which has the potential to endanger individual or public safety or health;
19. ( ) Existing or proposed security systems and structural plans of real property owned or leased by a public governmental body, and information that is voluntarily submitted by a nonpublic entity owning or operating an infrastructure to any public governmental body for use by that body to devise plans for protection of that infrastructure, the public disclosure of which would threaten public safety;
20. ( ) Records that identify the configuration of components or the operation of a computer, computer system, computer network, or telecommunications network, and would allow unauthorized access to or unlawful disruption of a computer, computer system, computer network, or telecommunications network of a public governmental body;
21. ( ) Credit card numbers, personal identification numbers, digital certificates, physical and virtual keys, access codes or authorization codes that are used to protect the security of electronic transactions between a public governmental body and a person or entity doing business with a public governmental body.
[ ] The other
items you have requested are found to be public records and will be produced
for your inspection and copying under the following guidelines.
a.
You must either
mail your request or submit a written request in person at the Normandy Fire
Protection District Firehouse at
b.
You must pay in
advance a search fee (at the current hourly rate of: Thirty-three cents
$0.33 per minute) and the cost of copying each document (at the current
cost of: Ten Cents ($0.10) per copy plus $0.33 per minute for time
expended by personnel making said copies.)
c.
You will also be
required to make a deposit toward the estimated cost of searching our records
prior to the search in the sum of: ($ ).
d.
Upon completion
of the search for the records, you will be required to pay any excess over the
actual cost of the search and the deposit.
e.
Thereafter, you
will be provided the public records for your inspection.
f.
After delivery of
the public records for your inspection, you will then be required to identify
specifically each item that you want copied.
g.
Thereafter, you
will be required to pay the cost of copying, in advance of copying.
h.
If, due to time
constraints existing at the time you advance the cost of copying, we will not
be able to complete said copying until a later date or time, you will be
advised thereof and called upon completion of said copying and notified that
said copies are available for retrievable by you.
i.
You will be
delivered the copies upon appearance, between 10:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. or 1:00
p.m. and 3:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and refunded any excess over the
deposit toward costs, if any, or required to pay any deficiency.
You
are welcomed to search the district’s website for records that may be published
on the website at
http://www.normandyfiredistrict.org/
If
you have any questions about the above procedures, please feel free to call.
Sincerely,
_________________________________________________
For Secretary of the District
and Custodian of Records
Last updated: 10/17/2007 3:20 PM