Board of Aldermen 09-22-2020 Page 23
dealing with this and it really is time consuming. We have many hours of these Right to Knowlike Mayor
Donchess said, the first half that | was there, it’s been over 34,000 that we did hand out for you knowor did
for them. And then when Legal started taking over it’s been hundreds of Right to Know Requests and
Manuela has helped me learn more about the Right to Know Law and help me figure out howto do
redactions so |can help them out more too. So it’s been a lot for all the Departments, Assessing, anybody
who gets the Right to Know.
President Wilshire
Manuela is on as well, Mayor Donchess.
Mayor Donchess
Is she on too? Manuela works in the Legal Department. Karina works for Administrative Services and has
been cataloging the hundreds of Right to Know Requests, so there’s actually a catalog of these things. Is
Manuela here? Steve is Manuela around, is she on the meeting?
Attorney Bolton
Her picture is there, | don’t know if something has gone wrong.
President Wilshire
Yeah it looks like maybe something.
Attorney Bolton
It was on before but nowit appears to be frozen.
Mayor Donchess
Well she at one point was keeping track of her time and she’d been to like 943 hours on the Right to Know
Request.
Attorney Bolton
Over the last year it’s been over 1,100 hours. And that’s her, she’s a Legal Assistant in the Department.
Celia Leonard is a Deputy Corporation Counsel and nearly half her time over the last year has been spent
on Right to Know Requests. So we are hoping that the addition of this new position will free both of these
people up to perform their normal duties so that we can get back on the path that we prefer to be on. |
think Manuela is now back, although maybe frozen again.
President Wilshire
Yeah it looks like she may have frozen again.
Mayor Donchess
There she is.
President Wilshire
Manuela?
