Somerville, MA. Municipal Property Review Board Minutes

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the state Freedom of Information Act, G.L.M. c.4, €7, clause 26th, I hereby request the following records:

A Complete set of Minutes of the Somerville Municipal Property Review Board, January 2007 - March 1, 2011.

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.

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,

Eileen Feldman, Community Access Project of Somerville
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Dear John,

Thanks so much for your search, I appreciate the time this took your office.

1. I will send a check to pay for the 2004 report;
and at the same time: would like to also request a copy of the March 2007 Municipal Property Comprehensive Consolidation Plan, aka 2007 HMFH Study.

Would you please tell me how much the City wants to charge for that 2007 Report- or is that one available freely online? If not, I will await your answer on that so I can send a check to pay for both reports at the same time.

2. I have a question for City Solicitor Wright, who has been cc'd on this:

The 2004 “Final Report of the Municipal Property Review Committee,” was also very recently mentioned by Resistat (May 27, 2011 at: http://somervilleresistat.blogspot.com/2011/05/cost-to-raze-or-maintain-former.html ).

What is the reason that the City charges for a copy of this 2004 report, instead of either providing it freely online as part of the City's cache of studies and reports; or at least freely emailing it in electronic form to residents, upon request?

thanks again and best to all,
Eileen

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on March 7, 2011. 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 March 7, 2011. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.