All communications related to April 10, 2015 FOIL by John Krauss
| Submitted | June 20, 2015 |
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From: John Krauss
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the New York State Freedom of Information Law (1977 N.Y. Laws ch. 933), I hereby request the following records:
I would like all electronic or written communications between Gerald Koszer, or anyone else in the New York City Department of Finance (DoF) FOIL department, and any staff of DoF's IT department regarding my (John Krauss's) FOIL request dated April 10, 2015, in particular with regards to the establishment of the cost for said FOIL request being 1000 hours of work at $50.36 per hour over six months.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
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 5 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
John Krauss
From: Koszer, Gerald (DOF)
June 29, 2015
John Krauss
MuckRock News
DEPT MR 18959
PO Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819
Dear Mr. Krauss:
This is in response to your June 20, 2015 Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request received by this office on June 22, 2015. We are in the process of complying with your request. Pursuant to Public Officers Law ยง 89(3), we anticipate this response to take no longer than twenty (20) business days from the date of this acknowledgement.
The fee for this service will be calculated upon our completion of the response at a rate of $.25 cents per page. You will be sent a bill for those charges at that time
Sincerely,
Gerald S. Koszer
Records Access Officer
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 20, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thank you for your help.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 20, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thank you for your help.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 20, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thank you for your help.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 20, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 20, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: MuckRock.com
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on June 20, 2015. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: John Krauss
There has been no follow-up on this response since June 29, despite indications that resolution would take twenty days or less.
From: Koszer, Gerald (DOF)
October 16, 2015
John Krauss
MuckRock News
DEPT MR 18959
PO Box 55819
Boston, MA 02205-5819
Dear Mr. Krauss:
In response to your June 20, 2015 Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request, please see the following:
The 10 hours that were provided as an estimate for the programming to extract the Property Tax Bill PDFs is for the development of procedures to extract the PDFs that currently reside on a relational database that runs under the AIX operating system. The product used to store the PDF files does not have an automated bulk extraction facility; it requires intimate knowledge of the relational tables and the ability to manipulate the data through the use of SQL commands and AIX shell scripts.
Once it has been determined which tables to use to extract the data, the data has to be staged on the AIX server for further processing through the FTP protocol, in order to move the data from the AIX server to a Windows operating system workstation. The next and last step is to move the PDF files which have been compressed or zip by date ranges to the portable drive. Compressing the data by date ranges enables easy access for the end user who will eventually load the data into their choice of relational database if they choose to select that option.
Property Count:
950 hours to extract from the database to the local AIX filesystem
25 hours to copy from AIX filesystem to portable hard drive.
There is approximately 630 GBs of data and it will take 90 min/1GB to extract from the database to the local AIX filesystem and 2 minutes to copy from AIX file system to portable hard drive.
Revised Notice of Property Value:
11 hours to extract from the database to the local AIX filesystem
8 hours to copy from AIX filesystem to portable hard drive
There is approximately 7.5 Gbs of data and it will take 90 min/1GB to extract from the database to the local AIX filesystem and 2 minutes to copy from AIX filesystem to portable hard drive
Total extraction and copying time in hours = 1,000 Hrs
Hourly Salary = $50.36 per hour.
Sincerely,
Gerald S. Koszer
Records Access Officer
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