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Ms. Perry
Yes, | have. Can you hear me ok?
President Wilshire
Yes.
Ms. Perry
Ok for the past year and a half or so | have been doing the Right to Know Requests for the Legal
Department. We get quite a few. We do keep track of them. The reason that | keep track of themina
chart and number them is that so no deadlines are missed and no documents are missed or anything
getting lost. Now with that being said, over this past year and a couple months, | personally, just myself,
have spent over 1,130 hours on these Right to Know Requests and Communications. That is not counting
the attorneys, Karina who is in the Administrative Services Department, Assessing, or wnoever else is
working onit. Thatis just specifically for me. | catalog everything, | write it down. We have to respond
within a 5-day period which means that there has to be letters drafted.
When we get requests for documents, they have to be reviewed to make sure that there is no confidential,
personal or that kind of information thatis not subject to the Right to Know. So that is extremely time-
consuming, because if | read it, then it gets reviewed and then it gets reviewed, because we don’t want to
make mistakes. And we have answered every single Right to Know Request that has come through our
office and then some. We also number the Communications that come into our office. We do not,
however, consider those the Right to Knowrequests. The tracking is for our office so we don’t miss
anything. And not once have we not sent a document, and we are talking hundreds of thousands of
documents, | have six boxes of requests next to my desk for this particular Right to Knowissue. So | mean
its been very time consuming and | would say it’s probably more than half of my time of what | soend on
these. Sol mean 1,130 hours, that’s quite a significant amount of time for the past year. So | think that
might be it unless somebody has any questions?
President Wilshire
We appreciate you. Thank you so much for everything you do for the good work you are doing in there and
for being here and hanging on there with us tonight. We appreciate that.
Ms. Perry
Of course.
President Wilshire
Alderman Clemons?
Alderman Clemons
Thank you. | just want to say thank you very much for your work and for serving the City of Nashua, both
the employees that spoke tonight and really all of the employees in City Hall and throughout the City. You
do a great job under tough conditions and | want to say thank you for everything you do.
President Wilshire
Anyone else? Ok the motion before us is for final passage of Resolution 20-064 by roll call? Would the
Clerk please call the roll?
