Page 5 - Referral Task News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Materials that are put forth in the report of our staff . Youve already said you agree with it . Thats correct. Okay. I dont have anything further. Others . Thank you for your recounting and commissioner keane that helped me. I was going to come at this differently. Would you treat this request the same way . How would you treat the request that came from mr. Ringel . How would the department treat the request today . Its treaty similarly but since i have been appointed we made procedurally changes and added staff in my department to specifically target these types of Public Record well, all r...

Responded in a timely fashion and responding mr. Ringel of all of the emails in possession of the Planning Department. You said you agreed with the report of our staff and in relation to the chronology and how this happened. Is that correct . Thats correct. In the report it does mention a number of times the gentleman asked for various records he was entitled to under the sunshine ordinance act and under the open records act, and was not given them and was given them later than the period he asked for them. Youre aware of that . Yes. Okay. So what youre saying when you agree with your report y...

Werent responding in a timely fashion and to my understanding there was no knowledge of that of the supervisor at that time so in other words we felt they responded in a timely fashion and responding mr. Ringel of all of the emails in possession of the Planning Department. You said you agreed with the report of our staff and in relation to the chronology and how this happened. Is that correct . Thats correct. In the report it does mention a number of times the gentleman asked for various records he was entitled to under the sunshine ordinance act and under the open records act, and was not giv...

Has the power to refer under 67. 30. Mr. Sheffield . Mr. Pillpais correct there is no specific provision. However, i believe through the conversations that we have had, one concern was say the supervisor of records makes a determination that they believe there was a willful violation. It would not necessarily prohibit them from bringing it forward to hear. It was a cover all basis kind of thing so we didnt preclude something that may have come from a different body. It certainly could be stricken, but in event it may happen that way, although it hasnt ever, the commission didnt want to foreclo...

Together with our supervisors and Mayors Office have come together and put this program together and we want to announce and launch it today in front of martin lams good will shop here because hes been a real great leader in helping many of the Small Businesses, and particularly those that dont speak english owned by proprietors that maybe english is not their first language. Over the past couple years, supervisor chu and i have been talking about these driveby lawsuits that have been occurring and how shocked some of these businesses are to the sometimes abusive process that are used by litig...