And we’re back to Gunstock Mountain Resort. So as you can tell, the goings-on by the Gunstock Area Commission and its Senior Management has caught the attention of more than one Grokster as well as other outsiders. They have, as one way of putting it, put themselves into the microscope. And they aren’t liking it at all. From ignoring the Law, refusing to pay attention to their own By-Laws, what could be to Electioneering, disparaging customers – there is a whole bunch of stuff that will result in a lot of blog fodder.
So, I’ve started with an RSA 91:A Right To Know demand for emails:
Pursuant to the Right to Know Law (RSA. 91-A:4 (I) ), I am demanding access, within 5 business days, to the below enumerated governmental records Otherwise, if this cannot be fulfilled with the mandated 5 business day window per RSA 91-A, please advise when the Responsive Records will be made available.
This request is for any emails involving Gunstock area employees Tom Day and/or Cathy White for the time period of March 1, 2022, through to end of day, today, March 13, 2022:
- Individual outbound emails from the email accounts provided to Tom Day or Cathy White as part of their employment.
- Individual outbound emails from the email accounts provided to Tom Day or Cathy White as part of their employment.
The information for each responsive record shall include:
- TO fields, FROM fields – all addresses
- CC fields, BCC fields – all addresses
- DATE fields
- SUBJECT field
- And the Body of the email itself.
Per RSA 91-A:4 IV(c) If you deny any portion of this request, please cite the specific exemption used to justify the denial to make each record, or part thereof, available for inspection along with a brief explanation of how the exemption applies to the information withheld.
As you are aware, in 2016, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that a governmental body in possession of records is required to produce them in electronic media using standard of common file formats: Green v. SAU #55, 168 N.H. 796, 801 (2016). Unless there is some reason that it is not reasonably practicable for you to produce these records in the requested format, I ask that you either do so or explain why it is not practicable for you to comply.
Please also note, per RSA 91-A:4 III, III-a, and III-b, you are required to maintain the safety and accessibility of such responsive records.
Please let me know when these records will be sent to me for inspection.
You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume turns out to be substantial, I have already set up a Dropbox folder for all of your responsive records to which they can be uploaded
Thank you for your lawful attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Skip Murphy
GraniteGrok.com
Tom Day is the GMR General Manager and Prez, Cathy White is the CFO. I WOULD have also RTK’d all of the Gunstock Area Commissioners’ emails except there’s one slight problem – they only use private emails. So while I can ask (and full disclosure: once this was submitted, Vice-Chair Gary Keidaisch voluntarily sent me his. However, I have no way of knowing if that was all of them for the period of 3/1-3/13; that’s just the reality of doing official business with private emails). And recent stories have shown that a lot of government employees, appointed officials, and elected politicians all seem to like “the privacy” of not using their official email addresses.
Please note, however, that none of the Commissioners have been assigned “official” email addresses and I have advised the recently appointed ones to get them quick because of this problem and that they need the “indemnity” of using official emails for official business. Else, they’ll continue to have to deal with folks like me constantly. Let’s see if Tom Day, as GM, forks them over soonest (after all, the IT folks report to him) as I know that I can whip up a new Grokster email in just a few seconds after logging into our server. It’s no big thang!
And after receiving it, I started with this email that, to me as an Evangelical Christian, showed an anti-Christian bias. Even if you don’t like the customer, is that proper governmental (or even corporate) behavior? I think not.
You know what? I think that the email lot I received isn’t complete – there were several telltale signs that several emails were missing. Maybe a lot. So there will be another one shorting following that.
And I have five more outstanding that have not yet been answered.
Tick-tock
And a few other folks are starting to take a bigger interest in this little investigation.
