Amtrak Board of Directors - Meeting Agendas and Minutes | Feb 2020
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| Tracking # |
20-FOI-00197 |
| Submitted | July 6, 2020 |
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From: Ben Heckscher
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
The agenda and minutes for any meeting of Amtrak's Board of Directors that occurred during the month of February 2020.
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 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Ben Heckscher
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 6, 2020. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Ben Heckscher
To Whom It May Concern,
My understanding is that Freedom of Information Act requires agencies to respond to FOIA requests within 20 days.
More than 20 days has now past since this request was submitted.
With this email I request that you acknowledge this request by the end of this week. If there is no response by the end of the week will start a process to seek assistance from others to move this request forward.
Thank you for your anticipated attention to this request.
Regards,
Ben Heckscher
From: Ben Heckscher
My earlier email was sent in haste.
I meant to say, if there is no response within three (3) working days (i.e. at the end of the day Tues. August 11, 2020) I will start a process to seek assistance from others to move this request forward.
Thank you.
From: Amtrak
Denise P. Moore
Sr. Administrative Assistant
Amtrak | 1 Massachusetts Ave., NW | Room 620V | Washington, DC 20001
Email: denise.moore@amtrak.com<mailto:denise.moore@amtrak.com> | office: 202.906.3715 | fax: 202.906.2314
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From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on July 6, 2020. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on April 5, 2021. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date. You had assigned it reference number #20-FOI-00197.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Amtrak
12-15-21 Ben Heckscher MuckRock News 411A Highland Avenue, DEPT MR 60256 Somerville, MA 02144-2516 Dear Heckscher: This letter acknowledges the receipt of your FOIA request dated 07-06-20 requesting The agenda and minutes for any meeting of Amtrak's Board of Directors that occurred during the month of February 2020.. This request has been issued tracking number 20-FOI-00197. Please reference this number in all correspondence and communications with this office. Thank you, FOIA Officer
From: Ben Heckscher
Dear Ms. Conner,
On August 10, 2020 your office sent me an Ack letter (copy attached) that said that the estimated date of response to this request was April 5, 2021. April 5, 2021 came and went with no response from Amtrak regarding this request.
Yesterday, on December 15, 2021 your office sent me another Ack letter (copy attached) for the same request with an new estimated date of response of January 28, 2022.
Can you explain what is going on with this request, which is now eight months past the original estimated date of response.
Thank you
Ben Heckscher
From: Ben Heckscher
I also wish to let you know that all future FOIA request from the MuckRock platform will be submitted to https://pal-amtrak.efoia-host.com/ as you requested in your letter of December 14, 2021.
I am hopeful that this change will make the process easier for both your office and for me.
Ben Heckscher
From: Amtrak
Hello,
Apologies for the duplicate letter, we are going through our backlog and made an error.
The board minutes still are not finalized. When they are you will receive them.
Rebecca Conner (she/her)
Manager, Records and Information Management
Amtrak | 1 Massachusetts Ave NW | 620O | Washington DC 20001
Email: rebecca.conner@amtrak.com<mailto:rebecca.conner@amtrak.com> | office: 202.906.3215 | cell: 202.860.6507
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From: Amtrak
05-23-22
Please see attached. Thank you, FOIA Officer
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20-FOI-00197
From: Amtrak
Dear Ben Heckscher,
The status of your FOIA request #20-FOI-00197 has been updated to the following status 'Documents Delivered'. To log into the AMTRAK PFOIA Portal click on the Application URL below.
https://pal-amtrak.efoia-host.com
Sincerely,
Amtrak FOIA Portal
From: Ben Heckscher
REF: Freedom of Information Act Request #20-FOI-00197
Thank you for providing the Minutes of the Amtrak Board of Directors Meeting on 2/20/2020.
I kindly request that you also please send me the Agenda for this meeting, as I asked for back when I made the original request.
I would also like to ask that your office please send future documents as a single PDF document rather than sending a compressed Ziped folder with each page of the document and the Ack letter appearing as its own PDF file. Sending a Ziped folder with one file for each page makes it quite difficult to easily read the document and is not the way people normally work with documents that have been converted to PDFs.
Thank you
Ben Heckscher
From: Amtrak
Hi, as this was a special board call there was no agenda to provide. I am attaching the table of contents.
Rebecca Conner (she/her)
Manager, Records and Information Management
Amtrak | 1 Massachusetts Ave NW | 620O | Washington DC 20001
Email: rebecca.conner@amtrak.com<mailto:rebecca.conner@amtrak.com> | office: 202.906.3215 | cell: 202.860.6507
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From: Ben Heckscher
Thank you very much for the speedy reply.
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