Contract & Deliverables from Rodgers Townsend re: Amazon HQ2
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| Submitted | Feb. 5, 2018 |
| Est. Completion | March 30, 2018 |
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From: Russel Neiss
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Missouri Sunshine Law and the Missouri Public Records Law, I hereby request the following records:
1. All contracts and invoices between St. Louis Economic Development Partnership and DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., (DDB) related to the submitted Amazon HQ2 RFP, from September 1, 2017 to to Feb 1, 2018.
2. Email communications (and any attachments) between Katy Jamboretz (kjamboretz@stlpartnership.com) and Tracy Long <tracy.long@stl.ddb.com> or Andrew Dauska <andrew.dauska@rodgerstownsend.com> from September 1, 2017 to December 1, 2017.
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 there are fees, 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 3 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Russel Neiss
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
Btw, this 3-day letter needs to go out today.
Thanks,
Dustin
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
Dear Mr. Neiss:
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following The Missouri Sunshine Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 5, 2018. You previously indicated that it would be completed on March 30, 2018. I wanted to let you know that I am still interested in the following documents, and to see if that date was still accurate.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
A letter stating the requester must agree to or prepay assessed or estimated fees in order for the agency to continue processing the request.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following The Missouri Sunshine Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 5, 2018. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on March 30, 2018. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
Dear Mr. Neiss:
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
Dear Mr. Neiss:
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From: Russel Neiss
Dear Mr. Bean,
Thanks so much for your response. I'm happy to pay the required amount for fulfilling this request -- that said, I have two small requests/questions:
1. As I stated in my initial request, I'd like the records digitally (I'd rather not kill more trees than necessary) and will happily take them by PDF which I presume is the easiest format for you to provide them in given your willingness to print them. (I presume that also would save me $6.70 in copy fees). Can you confirm that this is doable and that you'll save me two cups of coffee?
2. Can you tell me what the two hours of attorney time was for in this request?
Again, thanks so much for helping to fulfill this request. I really appreciate it.
Best,
Russel
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
Mr. Neiss:
In response to your correspondence dated April 2, 2018, the Partnership provides the following information:
· Question No. 1 - The Partnership will provide the production in PDF format per your request. Additionally, production in PDF format will eliminate all copying charges for this production. The total fees and costs to be paid prior to your inspection of this production are now One Hundred Twelve and 50/100 Dollars ($112.50), consisting of:
o 0.5 hours of administrative time at $25.00 per hour; and
o 2 hours of attorney time at $50.00 per hour.
· Question No. 2 - The attorney time spent on this matter has been incurred and charged consistent with the provisions of § 610.026.1, RSMo.
I look forward to hearing from you should you have any questions or concerns regarding the foregoing. Please do not hesitate to contact me at hbean@stlpartnership.com<mailto:hbean@stlpartnership.com> or (314) 615-7663.
Sincerely,
Howl Bean II
Staff Attorney
St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
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From: Russel Neiss
Mr. Bean,
Thanks for the prompt clarification --- just one last question (hopefully) regarding the attorney time at $50.00 per hour.
As you are no doubt aware, §610.026.1, RSMo. requires that requests be fulfilled using employees of the body that result in the lowest amount of charges for search, research, and duplication time. Given that we seem to have established that the Partnership clearly has administrative employees that work at $25.00 an hour, and $25.00 is less than $50.00 an hour, it's unclear to me how you can claim that the attorney time spent on this matter is being charged consistent with §610.026.1, RSMo. Were these attorney's engaged in the search and production of these records that could clearly be handled by lower paid administrative staff, or were they engaged in some other level of work that could only be handled by attorneys like reviewing the records to determine if they contained confidential or privileged communication or work product which ostensibly couldn't be handled by your administrative staff thus requiring the additional fee?
Again, thank you for your time, assistance, and your patience.
Best,
Russel Neiss
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following The Missouri Sunshine Law request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 5, 2018. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on March 30, 2018. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
Mr. Neiss:
As indicated in my correspondence dated March 30, 2018, and my subsequent emails, the Partnership has prepared the documents responsive to your request for inspection. Additionally, the Partnership will provide the production in PDF format per your request. Production in PDF format will eliminate all copying charges from the original quoted fee for this production. Consistent with § 610.026.1, RSMo., the total fees and costs to be paid prior to your inspection of this production are now One Hundred Twelve and 50/100 Dollars ($112.50), consisting of:
· 0.5 hours of administrative time at $25.00 per hour; and
· 2 hours of attorney time at $50.00 per hour.
The hourly rates above are a reduced rate and are less than actual costs. Once staff for the Partnership receives a check for the above amount, made out to the St. Louis Economic Development Partnership, we will make the documents available.
I look forward to hearing from you should you have any questions or concerns regarding the foregoing. Please do not hesitate to contact me at hbean@stlpartnership.com<mailto:hbean@stlpartnership.com> or at 314-615-7663.
Sincerely,
Howl Bean II
Staff Attorney
St. Louis Economic Development Partnership
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