Manhattan Community Boards
| Submitted | April 18, 2015 |
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From: Martha Speranza
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:
Names of all Manhattan Community Board Members (broken out by Board) and number of 2-year terms they have served, along with number of new applicants and new applicant acceptance rate from 2001 to present.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, and is not being made for commercial usage.
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,
Martha Speranza
From: Bartlett, Adele (ManhattanBP)
Dear Ms. Speranza,
This will acknowledge receipt of your FOIL request regarding Community Board membership.
Please note that a request pursuant to FOIL is a request for copies of existing records or documents. Your request consists of a series of questions.
Regarding the names of Community Board members, please see our website. You will find a map of the Manhattan community board districts, along with a list of community board members organized by individual boards.
As for the remainder of your questions, we have no records or documents that would be responsive to your inquiries.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.
Adele Bartlett
Deputy Gen. Counsel; Housing Policy Analyst
Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer
1 Centre Street, 19th Fl.
New York, New York 10007
212-669-8139
Cell: 917-648-2906
abartlett@manhattanbp.nyc.gov
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From: Bartlett, Adele (ManhattanBP)
Dear Ms. Speranza,
This will acknowledge receipt of your above-referenced FOIL request, sent to our Press office on May 2nd, 2015.
For clarification, your email to our press office states in part "I again hereby request the following records:" However, this is the very first time that I, as the Borough President's FOIL Officer have received your current FOIL request. I received a FOIL request from you on April 18th - also transmitted to me from our press office - to which I responded on April 20th. That FOIL requested lists of current Manhattan Community Board members by Board. Since that information is available to the public, I referred you to where it could be found: the website of the Manhattan Borough President's Office. (I did not refer you to individual community board sites.) I also explained that FOIL requests can only be made for copies of existing documents within an agency's records. It cannot be utilized to obtain narrative answers to questions.
Regarding your current FOIL request: Please be advised that the Manhattan Borough President's Office does not have records containing lists of Community Board members back to 2001. We have the records responsive to your request for the most recent years. We will search our records for those documents. I estimate that the search will require approximately 45 business days. When we have completed our search, I will contact you with information as to the number of pages required to be copied. When we have received your payment, the copies will be made available to you.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions.
Thank you.
Adele Bartlett
Deputy Gen. Counsel; Housing Policy Analyst
Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer
1 Centre Street, 19th Fl.
New York, New York 10007
212-669-8139
Cell: 917-648-2906
abartlett@manhattanbp.nyc.gov
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From: Bartlett, Adele (ManhattanBP)
Dear Ms. Speranza,
Attached please find our response to your FOIL request for a list of Community Board members. As I previously informed you, this office does not have records of membership rosters prior to our time in office.
Thank you.
Adele Bartlett
Deputy Gen. Counsel; Housing Policy Analyst
Office of Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer
1 Centre Street, 19th Fl.
New York, New York 10007
212-669-8139
Cell: 917-648-2906
abartlett@manhattanbp.nyc.gov
This message and its attachments are sent by the MBPO legal department and may contain information that is confidential and protected by privilege from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, you are prohibited from printing, copying, forwarding, or saving this email and any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately if you believe that you are not the intended recipient.
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