I ended the last dispatch with this:
“Guess how long it took to get a response???”
Answer: 10 days simply to have an email recognized and returned (emphasis mine):
On 8/12/2012 11:11 PM, John A. Gilbert wrote:
Mr. Murphy
With this email I am acknowledging receipt of your August 2, 2012 Right to Know request. Given the scope of your request, it is anticipated that it will take as much as 30 days from the date of your request to identify whether such documents exist, and if they do, to gather and review them. There may be a cost for reproducing them for you, but we will let you know more precisely what the cost might be once we have a better understanding of the scope and number of these documents. If you do not wish to incur theses costs, it may be possible for you to review them without incurring the cost of reproduction. Again, we will let you know that too.
Best regards,
John
John A. Gilbert
President
Synchrony Advisors, LLC
10 Myrtle Street
Exeter, NH 03833
Tel. 603-219-6538
Email john@synchronyadvisors.com
www.synchronyadvisors.com
Well, THAT didn’t go over too well:
On 8/12/2012 11:59 PM, Skip Murphy wrote:
Mr. Gilbert,
You are well beyond the 5 business day limit for providing the requested documentation – to say that it has taken 10 days merely to officially reply to my email is totally unacceptable. To then state that you will need an additional 30 days is a tacit admission that you are further breaking the Law with respect to the public’s Right To Know how its Government is functioning and acting (or not) in the Public’s behalf.
Further information as to the reason for your failure to comply with with New Hampshire Law, RSA 91-A is now requested with all haste; under RSA 91-A, why you and your Commission members stonewalled and sat on our perfectly legal request? Is the failure to follow these generally accepted procedures, to the point that you apparently do not even have acceptable accounting procedures in place (i.e., hit the button and print out a check register, for instance) a harbinger of the quality of report that you will be issuing for “the common good”? Truly, how hard is it to present an accounting record? I must say, that it does not bode well for a Commission that is to pinpoint water usage in the State for the next 25 years but cannot issue where you stand financially for a few months of work?
Sloppy at best. Or, at its worst? Do we need to start legal procedures against your firm to obtain the requested documents (as you have acknowledged that you are acting as an official agent of the State of NH in this matter) to “prod” this now glacially slow process you have adopted to a greater speed (again, 10 days just to say “hey, we got your email!”)?
I also add that I do hope that no documents or information have been erased, lost, deleted, or “misplaced”.
Kindest regards,
Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com
Next update tomorrow
Previously:
- GrokWATCH: Right To Know Request – Water Sustainability Commission public surveys
- GrokWATCH: Right To Know Request – Water Sustainability Commission – Update 1 (Request for Signed Contract)
- GrokWATCH: Right To Know Request – Water Sustainability Commission – Update 2 (request for financials and correspondences)
