Is Nashua City Right To Know Coordinator Jesse Neumann Just Playing Word Salad in his RTK Responses?

To the Board of Assessors – Attached is an email response to a written request that was already satisfied but for some reason, I received this response yesterday from [Right To Know Coordinator Jesse] Neumann.

This guy is just justifying his position by writing BS. Response #1 is just plain wrong  – the cost was $2.15 and was paid already. Also, the last sentence is incomplete and there are no electronic copies attached, but I do not need them as the request was already satisfied.

2) was also satisfied last week so responding to that yesterday was unnecessary.

3) Is unclear and unreasonably described. What does Mr. Neumann mean by “The assessing Department does not presently forward their files.” So, are there abatement appeal settlements that are in assessing that are not forwarded to the Clerks? Exactly what is meant by “their files”?

4) Is unclear and unreasonable described. I asked “can you provide me with the names of the settlement agreements you keep within the clerk’s office.” (this was sent to Ms. Lovering). Neumann writes “The City Clerk’s Office does not keep a list of every named document in their files” I did not ask for the name of every document, just “settlements”. For example, we know we have abatement appeals in the Clerk’s office (or at least some of them), we have employee settlements, we have all other lawsuit settlements against the city. Anything else?

So, you can see this guy just plays with words and wastes taxpayer dollars to justify his position. We just don’t need this. Frankly, it was much simpler when Ms. Lovering or her Clerk’s work directly with the public.