HomeMy WebLinkAbout07 03 2023 PRR Response (Building 1450 Ost-WBarnstable Rd)_0001 TOWN OF BARNSTABLE
I BARMSTABLE. OFFICE OF TOWN ATTORNEY
9 MASS
367 Main Street
rFcw�a�° Hyannis, Massachusetts 02601-3907
Phone 508-862-4620
FAX 508-862-4782
KAREN L.NOBER,Town Attorney karen.nober@town.barnstable.ma.us
CHARLES S.McLAUGHLIN,Jr.,Senior Counsel charles.mclaughiin@town.barnstable.ma.us
KATHLEEN CONNOLLY,Assistant Town Attorney kathieen.connolly@town.bamstable.ma.us
July 3, 2023
Jeffery Ford, Esq.
72 Main Street, P. O. Box 485
West Harwich, MA 02671
eff2fordandfordattorne, scorn
RE: M.G.L. Chanter 66 Section 10 Request 1450 Osterville Road West Barnstable Road#A
Osterville MA Ma /Parcel 127-007-001 & Ma /Parcel127-036
Dear Mr. Ford:
This confirms that the Building Department is in receipt of your public records request
dated June 7, 2023. An extension of 15 additional business days was entered and a response date
of July 13, 2023 is reflected. Your request is as follows:
"[AJny and all records, documents, emails, letters, photographs, videos, and any other
correspondence in the town's Building Department files for the property located at 1450
Osterville West Barnstable Road and 1450 Osterville West Barnstable Road #A, Osterville, MA
dating from July 8`h, 2016 to the present. Including without limitation, any and all
communications, emails, letters, photographs, videos and complaints, from the abutting neighbor
Kenny Lacasse, who is specifically named in the violation letter from July 8`h, 2016, to the
present."
Please be advised that the Building Department and Information Technology ("IT")
Department have already begun searching the records requested, however, your request is very
broad in terms of time period and is also vague in that no subject matter or key words are
identified in the 7 year period for which you seek documents, therefore the search to date is
turning up a large amount of records, some of which may not be responsive to your request.
Finally, you seek documents "from abutting neighbor Kenny Lacasse" but do not narrow the
individual(s) to whom such correspondence may have been sent.
Enclosed are documents maintained in the files of the Building Department that are
responsive to your request. In addition, there may be responsive emails or other responsive
documents, but the time period and subject matters need to be narrowed for this not to be an
overly-broad and unduly burdensome request for our IT department. Please provide me with a
narrower description of the types of documents you are seeking by providing email subjects
and/or search terms for topics of information that you want. If you can also narrow your
timeframe that would be helpful to our IT department in finding documents that are responsive to
your request. Finally, please narrow the identities of recipients of communications from"Kenny
Lacasse" so we more easily find documents responsive to your request.
Once we have received a more narrowly-tailored request we can provide you with a cost
estimate for searching for and producing responsive records.
Please be advised that pursuant to 950 CMR 32.00 and G.L. c. 66, Section 10(a) you have
the right to appeal this decision to the Supervisor of Public Records within 90 calendar days.
Such appeal shall be in writing, and shall include a copy of the letter by which the request was
made and, if available, a copy of the letter by which the custodian responded. Pursuant to G.L.
c.66, section l0A(c), you also have the right to seek judicial review by commencing a civil
action in the Superior Court.
Very Truly Yours,
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Kathleen Connolly
Assistant Town Attorney
cc: Building Department