I get a lot of tips from readers and others but yesterday’s post (“Gunstock Mountain Resort – So this is what Tom Day, Rebecca LaPense, and Robin Rowe think of a large Gunstock Christian customer: SoulFest“) was obtained through an RSA 91:A Right To Know demand.
These demands are invaluable, given what is happening at Gunstock and within the Gunstock Area Commission (“GAC”). Or, what ISN’T happening. The proper oversight by the GAC of the staff.
Vice-Chair Gary Kiedaisch assumed the title of Acting Chair after Brian Gallagher resigned a while back. And he is very accomplished and has had a great professional career and good for him. The problem is that he’s still in CEO mode and has NOT shown any willingness during his GAC tenure to learn and understand how to work in a Government-role as part of a Public Sector agency (i.e., Gunstock Ski Area).
In the short time that I have known about him and watched him (literally just a couple of weeks + some emails from “birdies tweeting in my ear”) rules, laws, and By-Laws, they just get in his way.
Yeah, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s no separation between the Overwatchers and the Watched at Gunstock – and my previous post showed a very small inkling of the overall attitude. I know that this is going to get complaints from Gunstock fans. They need to know that sometimes what is seen on the surface is masking a lot going on under the waterline.
My deal isn’t about skiing, it isn’t about Gunstock itself – it is all about the lack of Good Governance by the GAC and the senior staff. Long-term readers understand that Good Governance is all about following the proscribed processes in Open and Transparent ways. Thus, when I saw and was told that none of that was happening, I decided to have a look-see. And, I understood that my only avenue is by RSA 91:A Right To Know demands.
The following is the first one – demanding emails about the General Manager Tom Day and the Chief Financial Officer Cathy White. Just taking a look at emails of the Commissioners below and discovering that business that should be conducted in Public Meetings isn’t should tell you the story:
—— Forwarded Message ——From: “Skip” <Skip@granitegrok.com>Cc: “Gary Kiedaisch” <garykinusa@gmail.com>; “Mr Peter Ness” <petergness@yahoo.com>; “david strang” <davidstrangmd@yahoo.com>; “Jade Wood” <gopjade@outlook.com>Sent: 3/13/2022 12:44:51 PMSubject: RSA 91-A demand – Employee emails
Good afternoon,
This email is to serve notice that I am making a Right To Know demand for all emails sent to or sent from Tom Day and/or Cathy White for the period of March 1, 2022 to end of day today, March 13, 2022.A copy of this RTK is attached and presented online below.-Skip
Skip Murphy
Co-Founder, co-ownerGraniteGrok.com | Skip@GraniteGrok.com | 603-630-6644
Dominating the political Bandwidth in New HampshirePursuant 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 so me for inspection.
You may email the responsive records to me at Skip@GraniteGrok.com. If the volume is 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
And I did receive them. Also know that there is more to come.
