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Lehi to charge for GRAMA data
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If they want to work in the private sector, then that's great. They certainly won't get the benefits that the government offers, nor will they get every single little holiday off (unless they work for a bank). This is nothing more than cities demanded to be paid a second time for doing their job!
The "I am a taxpayer and I shouldn't pay for this" rationale doesn't apply. You don't get free access to the Rec Center and other things. There are a lot of city services that must be payed for and I think GRAMA requests are one of those. However, I do think that residents should have one payment schedule and non-residents have a different, more expensive one since they are not paying city taxes. Also, like the article says, the first 15 minutes are free so if you have a simple request it won't cost you anything.
I was disgusted with the article that Cathy Allred wrote for the Lehi Free Press/Daily Herald. Her editorial was an infantile attempt at reporting the news. She made no attempt to call Lehi on this latest disgusting message of "We know better than you so get out of our business".
Reporters, citizens, and businesses should be horrified that a city would put stumbling blocks in the path of PUBLIC information. Quality, timely, free information is essential to keeping a government honest. Blocking that process affirms an entity is hiding something and lacks integrity.
The only stumbling block to access is that the city does not want to higher several full time employees (on a limited budget) to handle the thousand page request of every nut angry about losing an election or developer hunting for a reason to sue the city on the grounds of equal protection.
If you think I am wrong, go to the city and make a specific request pertaining to a specific Grama item and see if you are turned down. If so call the paper or file with the state Attorney General's office.
What would it cost someone at Micron, Novell, Kennecott or any other large organization to look through thousands of emails, filter them, convert formats, and print them? It is also not up to the city to filter out which request are bogus and which are real, by law they have to handle every one. This is expensive and time consuming.
So, if you had your way, every wacko Constitutionalist could request thousands of records each day to "help preserve our freedoms"?
"The Utah State Office of Education must release copies of a $500,000 proposal awarded to Brigham Young University to improve math education, according to the State Records Committee.
"The seven-member committee voted unanimously this morning in favor of making the proposal public, following a request from Sen. Margaret Dayton, R-Orem, to decide the matter.
"Last month, Dayton sought a copy of the proposal using the Government Records Access and Management Act from the State Office of Education and was denied.
"Within the next few days, the State Office of Education will release the proposal or appeal the records committee's decision to Utah's 3rd District Court, said Kristina Kindl, a Utah Attorney General's Office lawyer representing the Office of Education.
"At issue was information in the proposal based on BYU professors' proprietary research about math education."
For the rest of that story, go to:
http://deseretnews.com/article/content/mobile/0,5223,695235790,00.html
If it is not an attempt to block public input what is it? You are obviously a council member so please inform me and stop hiding behind anonymity.
I take great offense at the fact that my husband ran a fair and competitive campaign for city council in Lehi (without personal attacks and rumor spreading) but because of a desire to serve the city without being a part of "the old club" he's now considered an "angry nut" and "wacko constitutionalist." Shouldn't every American be a "constitutionalist", particularly those sworn to uphold and defend the constitution in public office? None of the "inundation" of GRAMAs has come from us, though copies of some slanderous e-mails about my husband by Lehi's public servants have made it our way through that process. Also, I heard it was six weeks, not a year's, worth of e-mails. Maybe you should check your facts or can't you afford the GRAMAs?
P.S. It's hire, not higher!
Terms like "Waco" and "Angry Nut" are obvious outbursts that come from a person's limited vocabulary and an uncanny inability to express themselves.
It is referred to in laymans language as "garbage in - garbage out." Surely, the spirit of being magnanimous is far, far out of reach for this person.
What an embarrasment it must be for the residents of Lehi to have to watch their City Council and Administration perpetuating and fostering such ill-will and prideful bad behavior - systematically to its citizens.
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