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through and cataloged them. At least 12,000 were not requested by me. So when! put ina Right to Know
and ask for e-mails they sent me an extra 500 e-mails that weren’t within the date range | wanted and
redacted them. | didn’t want them, | didn’t ask for that range. They sent me 3,500 pages of the KRT new
assessment data. | didn’t ask for that, | just asked that it be put on-line and the City put it on-line, but they
sent me the 3,500 pages. They sent me manuals | didn’t want. You know it comes out to three-quarters of
the information | didn’t ask them for, they gave it to me. And when! Manuela say that she has spent 1,100
hours working or 1,000 hours, or two weeks a month, well you know, that’s a lot of scanning and working
and potentially redacting that | didn’t ask for. So you know, | can go to the DRA put a request in have the
attorney call me, have a worker call me and ask for clarification, handle it and be done. It’s really simple.
That process doesn’t exist for some of us in the City. And if you start redacting documents like you are
doing in Assessing, you're going to need more than one person because your Permit Department has a lot
of data on it; phone numbers and e-mails. And everyone is down there accessing it publicly and they are
not being slowed down from doing it. It’s the assessing data that’s being raced up to Legal.
President Wilshire
Ms. Ortolano, can you wrap it up please?
Ms. Ortolano Yes, |am extraordinarily disappointed in the Mayor. He does not take responsibility and he
shifts the blame totally on the public. ve been wronged by this City, | think Attorney Bolton runs a pretty
unethical office and | have certainly seen my costs run up legally because of what's gone on in there.
Thank you.
President Wilshire
Is there anyone else from the public that would like to give comment?
Laura Colquhoun Laura Colquhoun.
President Wilshire
Hello?
Fred Teeboom Can | speak?
President Wilshire
Mr. Teeboom?
Fred Teeboom Yes.
President Wilshire
Yes.
Mr. Teeboom I'l be very brief because you've been over 4 hours. First of all R-20-064 were you approved
$100,000.00 for the Records Management position on the Right to Know question. First of all, | suspect
that Ms. Ortolano stopped asking for Right to Know Law Request at number 1,100 hours | think and
hundreds of thousands of documents | think were drastically reduced. So | suggest that $100,000.00 not be
spent on the position of a permanent employee, is sort of implied with the fringe benefits it’s been
$7,000.00 that the $100,000.00 be spent a contract so when the requests follow these so-called Right to
Know Law Request which | dispute obviously, reduce this down to a slow number like | was used to when |
was an Alderman and you can eliminate this new position without difficulty. So | recommend you make into
a contract position.
