Emails with City Hall (CUNY)

Thank you for your email dated Sept. 26, 2014 regarding documents you are
seeking
under the Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
In your letter you requested:

Copies of all e mails possessed by Central Office that were sent to or
from domain @cityhall.gov, since Jan. 1 2014.

Upon receipt of your letter I forwarded it to the appropriate University
office for their review.
We will endeavor to locate any of the requested and covered documents that
may be at Central Office by Oct. 17, 2014.
If we have the records prior to that date, we will forward them to you.
Please give me a call on or around Oct. 17 2014 so we can set up an
appointment for you to review those requested documents that are covered
under the statute. Under FOIL you can review all covered documents free of
charge and may have copies made for .25 per page. If you wish for the
records to be made into electronic documents as stated in your note, that
will add some additional time to the job, depending on the volume of
material and the cost will be based upon:

i. an amount equal to the hourly salary attributed to the lowest paid
agency employee who has the necessary
skill required to prepare a copy of the requested record;
ii. the actual cost of the storage devices or media provided to the person
making the request in complying with
such request;
iii. the actual cost to the agency of engaging an outside professional
service to prepare a copy of a record, but
only when an agency`s information technology equipment is inadequate to
prepare a copy, if such service is used to prepare the copy; and
iv. preparing a copy shall not include search time or administrative
costs, and no fee shall be charged unless at least two hours of agency
employee time is needed to prepare a copy of the record requested. A
person requesting a record shall be informed of the estimated cost of
preparing a copy of the record if more than two hours of an agency
employee`s time is needed, or if an outside professional service would be
retained to prepare a copy of the record.

Please let me know if you wish to proceed under the rules quoted above.

If you disagree with any rulings I may make you can appeal them to the
General Counsel and Sr. Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, Mr. Frederick
Schaffer, at the Central Office.

Dave Fields
Records Access Officer

To: Conor Skelding

Thank you for your email dated Sept. 26, 2014 regarding documents you are seeking under the Freedom Of Information Law.

In your letter you requested:

Copies of all e mails possessed by Central Office that were sent to or from domain @cityhall.gov, since Jan. 1 2014.

Upon receipt of your letter I forwarded it to the appropriate University office for their review.
We will endeavor to locate any of the requested and covered documents that may be at Central Office by Oct. 17, 2014.
If we have the records prior to that date, we will forward them to you. Please give me a call on or around Oct. 17 2014 so we can set up an appointment for you to review those requested documents that are covered under the statute. Under FOIL you can review all covered documents free of charge and may have copies made for .25 per page. If you wish for the records to be made into electronic documents as stated in your note, that will add some additional time to the job, depending on the volume of material and the cost will be based upon:

i. an amount equal to the hourly salary attributed to the lowest paid agency employee who has the necessary
skill required to prepare a copy of the requested record;
ii. the actual cost of the storage devices or media provided to the person making the request in complying with
such request;
iii. the actual cost to the agency of engaging an outside professional service to prepare a copy of a record, but
only when an agency`s information technology equipment is inadequate to prepare a copy, if such service is used to prepare the copy; and
iv. preparing a copy shall not include search time or administrative costs, and no fee shall be charged unless at least two hours of agency employee time is needed to prepare a copy of the record requested. A person requesting a record shall be informed of the estimated cost of preparing a copy of the record if more than two hours of an agency employee`s time is needed, or if an outside professional service would be retained to prepare a copy of the record.

Please let me know if you wish to proceed under the rules quoted above.

If you disagree with any rulings I may make you can appeal them to the General Counsel and Sr. Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, Mr. Frederick Schaffer, at the Central Office.

Dave Fields
Records Access Officer

Dear Mr. Skelding,

We received your FOIL Request below and have compiled the responsive emails for your review. I am contacting you to schedule a time for you to review those emails on a computer in our office at 395 Hudson St. (corner of Houston St.), 6th floor, NY, NY 10014. We can provide you an office and computer as early as next Tuesday, October 14th.

You will be able to view the emails without charge. The cost for copying any emails is $0.25 per page. Our FOIL officer Dave Fields will need to review any copies you make for exemption purposes. After that, he will then send you all copies, less those that are exempt from disclosure. You can make payment after his review so that you only pay for those emails you receive.

Thank you for letting me know when you intend to come to our office.

Wendy

Wendy Lader
Director, Management Analysis and Communications
The City University of New York
Computing and Information Services
395 Hudson St., 6th floor
New York, N.Y. 10014
wendy.lader@cuny.edu<mailto:wendy.lader@cuny.edu>
tel: (646) 664-2512 (new number)

Very good. We’ll see you Tues, October 14th at 10 am. Please come to the receptionist on the 6th floor and ask for me.

Thanks Wendy. One further check…is it possible to see the E mail for Chancellor, Allan, Jay….if any, prior?

This week, by Wed.

>Your FOIL is ready. There are 98 pages of records. If you wish to have
>copies sent to you, please send me a check made out to "City University
>of New York" in the amount of 24.50 and I will send you the records...we
>do not charge for postage.

One record that you pulled has been omitted since it is a confidential
letter from an attorney to his client board and is exempt from disclosure
do to attorney/client confidentiality. Otherwise all the other records
you have chosen are included.

Please send check to me at 205 East 42nd street, NY, NY 10017 Room 1824.

Dave Fields
Records Access Officer for
Central Office

Where do you want me to send the records?

A copy of documents responsive to the request.