Under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, and the Freedom of Information Act, SOURCE media is a seeking the video recording that was made of the Welcoming Task Force meeting on Thursday, March 18 at 5 p.m.
It was a publicly posted meeting, under the open meeting law.
Since the meeting was recorded on ZOOM, the digital news media is requesting a copy of that ZOOM or video file.
Other meetings are recorded on ZOOM and then aired on the Government Channel. Just in case the City does not plan to air this meeting on the government channel, the digital news media outlet's is requesting a copy.
As of this date, March 18, 2021, the city should preserve the video.
This was the first meeting of the task force since November 2019.
As of today's date - March 18 - no minutes have been filed for the October 16, 2019 and November 12, 2019 meetings.
If there are minutes, they are not on the city's website.
SOURCE media is also seeking those meetings, which since then have not been filed and posted, it is city bylaw and state violation.
Disclosure of the requested information to the news outlet is in the public interest because it is likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government, so the news media is requesting a waiver of any fees.
The Public Records Law requires you to provide the news outlet with a written response within 10 business days.
If you cannot comply with the requests above, you are statutorily required to provide a specific explanation in writing on why a time extension is being requested.
For some reason I am unable to paste the link to to the zoom mtg here, so I've made a pdf of it and attached it along with the draft minutes.
Please let me know if you have any difficulties with the hyperlink.
Minutes will be voted on at the next meeting, for now, these are the draft minutes attached. They are also loaded onto the city website.
I am still looking for notes or minutes from the two meetings in 2019 that you asked about.
The employee who was responsible for those is no longer here.
At this time, I have no responsive records for those two meetings.
I am continuing to look through files and notes, and have asked tech services to check their email. I can't imagine they were sent to the clerk and *not* posted, but on the off chance...
If I come across them I will let you know ASAP.
Request Date
2021-03-19
Agency Tracking
2021-0506
Acquisition Notes
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