Contracts between 's MTS ISS regarding surveillance, lighting, and network equipment (Union County Sheriff's Office)

Dear Mr. Murphy,

Please see the message below.

Marlena M. Russo, Information Assistant
Office of the County Manager
Union County Administration Building, 6th Fl.
10 Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915
Email: opra@ucnj.org
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To: Mr. Charles Murphy

From: James E. Pellettiere, Clerk of the Board

Date: November 13, 2013

Re: Open Public Records Act (OPRA) Request(s) Acknowledgment

This office received your OPRA request for all contracts and written agreements, including emails and memos of equipment and labor notes, and invoices between MTS Intelligent Surveillance Solutions, or by the owner Rob Merchant on November 13, 2013. The OPRA law requires that a response be provided within seven (7) business days, beginning the first business day after receipt of the request. We will have a response prepared by November 22, 2013. We will contact you and provide a page count and price, should you wish to purchase any copies. You also have the option of viewing the records in the Clerk of the Board’s office. If the records are available electronically, they can be provided via email if preferred. Presently there is no fee for email, and there is no charge for simply inspecting a document.

Pursuant to Ordinance 710-2010, adopted on October 14, 2010, the following fee schedule applies for photocopies: first page to tenth page: no charge; eleventh page and every page thereafter: $.05 per page for documents that are letter-sized or smaller, and $.07 per page for documents that are legal-sized or larger. There shall be a limit of thirty (30) pages forwarded via facsimile to any requestor, per request, and the fee schedule is as follows: first page to tenth page: no charge; eleventh page to thirtieth page: $.05 per page for letter-sized documents, and $.07 per page for legal-sized documents.

If you wish to have records mailed or faxed to you, we kindly ask that you remit payment to the following address:

Office of the Clerk of the Board
Union County Administration Building – 6th Floor
10 Elizabethtown Plaza, Elizabeth, NJ 07207

Please do not send cash; kindly make a check or money order payable to the County of Union. We will provide the documents upon receipt of payment. If no information is available, or falls under a category protected by law, our response will provide an explanation.

OPRA ordinarily grants immediate access to budgets, bills, vouchers, contracts (including collective negotiations agreements and individual employment contracts), and public employee salary and overtime information. However, it may take longer to complete requests for immediately accessible documents depending on the amount of material requested, medium requested, if redaction is required, or if records are in storage. For all other records: documents stored in archive, those that require redaction as provided by law, or requests that require an extensive amount of work to complete may take longer than seven (7) business days to compile.

In accordance with the OPRA, requests that require an extensive amount of effort to complete may be subject to a special service charge in addition to the statutory per-page fees. Special service fees, if applicable, are determined on a case-by-case basis and you will be informed of the charge prior to it being incurred. The archive fee is $2.00 per box—in addition to the statutory per-page copy fees—and you will be informed of any fees prior to the charge being incurred.

We thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation and patience while we work to fill your request. If you have any questions, please call this office at (908) 527-4140.

Dear Mr. Murphy,

This email constitutes a formal and complete response to your November 13, 2013 OPRA request for "A full copy of all contracts and written agreements, including emails and memos of equipment and labor quotes, and invoices between MTS Intelligent Surveillance Solutions, or by the owner Rob Merchant." Please be advised there are no responsive documents to provide for your request.

Please sign and return the Response sheet to this office. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Marlena

Marlena M. Russo, Information Assistant
Office of the County Manager
Union County Administration Building, 6th Fl.
10 Elizabethtown Plaza
Elizabeth, NJ 07207
Phone: 908.527.4178 / Fax: 908.558.0915
Email: opra@ucnj.org
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