Wednesday, March 18, 2015 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
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RECORDS: Requests
go to City Recorder
Kathy Nelson
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by special methods such as
express mail.
There is also the cost of
time spent by the City attor-
ney reviewing, redacting and
segregating records at the
City’s request, a cost that is
not recoverable.
The City of Sisters charges
much less than a number
of other Oregon cities for
this service, at $32.33 an
hour. That figure is based
on the average pay per hour
plus benefits of certain City
employees. The $32.33 repre-
sents numbers from five years
ago. At 2015 rates, the figure
would calculate to $41.53 an
hour.
In addition, there is a $10
charge for CDs and 25 cents
per copy for printed mate-
rial. For comparison, Forest
Grove charges 20 cents per
copy (the lowest) but $55.50
an hour, $22 for CDs, and
offers no free time. Several
cities charge $100 an hour for
electronic records research.
So the citizens of Sisters
are getting a pretty good deal
when it comes to procuring
public records. But there is
a trend developing. In 2012,
$555 was collected for pub-
lic records requests; in 2013,
$741; and in 2014, $3,536.
Through March 10, 2015,
there have been 59 total pub-
lic records requests. Twenty-
five of those requests came
from Ed Protas; 17 from Mike
Morgan, both of whom have
lately been very active in City
politics. Four requests came
from The Nugget and the
other 13 from nine different
people. Senior living facility
developer Mark Adolf made
three requests for documents
regarding the McKenzie
Meadows development, and
Tom Pryor also made three
requests regarding McKenzie
Meadows.
Only three of the requests
involved any payment of fees.
Nelson is currently work-
ing on a request that has to
date filled three binders and is
still in process.
The City Council has
decided to address this situ-
ation in a future workshop,
looking at a three-year com-
parison, what other cities do,
and possibly establishing a
new fee schedule.
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High fees limit public
records access in Ore.
By Jeff Barnard
Associated Press
GRANTS PASS (AP)
— News organizations in
Oregon report government
bodies increasingly charge
high fees for access to pub-
lic records, despite requests
to waive them in the public
interest.
Oregon’s public-records
law gives public bodies the
power to recoup their costs
for pulling together, copying
and redacting public records
of confidential information.
If the public body wants to
hire a lawyer to review the
redactions, the costs quickly
mount up.
In one case, The
Oregonian newspaper in
Portland asked the Oregon
Department of Energy for
databases on business energy
tax credits and loans granted
to solar energy projects. The
department wanted $9,830
for staff time and legal
review. The newspaper scaled
back its request to a database
costing about $500.
Attorney General Ellen
Rosenblum says she is orga-
nizing a task force to propose
updates to the public-records
laws.
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