Stenographic Record including additional dictionary file

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c.66, §10, I hereby request the following records:

Stenographic Record of Boston City Council Public Meetings 11 December 2013 - 10 February 2014 including the additional dictionary file edited in the Council Chamber provided for in the Stenographic Services Contract Article 2.3 at
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/800972-fritch-37966.html

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as we believe this request is in the public interest, as suggested but not stipulated by the recommendations of the Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

I expect the request to be filled in an accessible format, including for screen readers, which provide text-to-speech for persons unable to read print. Files that are not accessible to screen readers include, for example, .pdf image files as well as physical documents.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Don Warner Saklad

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 10, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 10, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 10, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

Thank you Christine O'Donnell !

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 10, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

Councilor Wu wrote,

"No longer are we satisfied with meeting public records requirements, including federal Freedom of Information Act obligations, in a reactive way, responding to citizen-generated requests slowly on paper.

Instead, open data laws call for proactive information sharing, inviting transparency, scrutiny, and accountability."
Boston’s Brave New World Of Open Data Access by Michelle Wu
http://wgbhnews.org/post/boston-s-brave-new-world-open-data-access

Contract Article 2.3 provides

"City is entitled to ownership and possession of all deliverables purchased or developed with Contract funds. All work papers, reports, questionnaires and other written materials prepared or collected by the Contractor in the course of completing the work to be performed under this Contract shall at all times be the exclusive property of the City."
at
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/800972-fritch-37966.html

The additional file is needed to interpret the .sgstn StenoGraph StenoNote format of the Stenographic Record.

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 10, 2014. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Public Records Division

Dear Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,

Please look into the Reconsideration of your Directive regarding the Additional File for Plain Text Stenographic Record of the Public Meeting of Boston City Council. The Additional file with abbreviations, acronyms, dictionary type entries is necessary for PlainText. Your Public Records Division failed to explicitly consider the City Contract Article 2.3 "Performance" indicating the Additional File is property of the City, see also
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1263415-stenographer-contract-fy15.html#document/p4

"City is entitled to ownership and possession of all deliverables purchased or developed with Contract funds. All work papers, reports, questionnaires and other written materials prepared or collected by the Contractor in the course of completing the work to be performed under this Contract shall at all times be the exclusive property of the City."

There is also a requirement that public information be provided in the original language for hard of hearing, deaf, ESL English as a Second Language folks.

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Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c.66, §10, I hereby request the following records:

Stenographic Record of Boston City Council Public Meetings including the Additional dictionary file edited in the Council Chamber provided for in the Stenographic Services Contract Article 2.3