Customer Name:
Scott O’connell
| Dear Superintendent| This is a request for public records made in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act of Illinois (“FOIA”) (5 ILCS 140/1 et seq.). This is not a request for commercial purposes. Please deliver the responsive records as one of more PDF files via a reply e-mail. This email contains three separate FOIA requests. FOIA #1 – Please provide the record (or records) which detail the anticipated school year attendance for certified staff and students for fiscal year/school year 2015| 2016| 2017| 2018| 2019| 2020 and the upcoming year 2021. Please note that I am not asking for an actual “calendar”| but it is that type of record would be the easiest record to convey the data that I wish to review. So| if there is a “calendar” already in existence for a given school year| that calendar would fulfill the request for that year. As an example| I have attached a 1-page 2021 school year “calendar” which details the dates that certified staff and/or students are anticipated to be in attendance. (Note: For 2021| “attendance” does not have to mean physically being in the building| so do not concern yourself with the current unknowns for this school year.) If you do not already have a simple| 1-page “calendar” that shows the data for a given year| any other record(s) which show the whole “attendance” year for certified staff and students will be responsive to this request. FOIA #2 – This request is similar to FOIA #1. The difference is that this request is not attendance days at school buildings but for the records which show the actual days and hours that the Administration Center for the district was open to the public for fiscal year/school year 2015| 2016| 2017| 2018| 2019| 2020 and school year 2021 until today (July 1st through August 28th). Again| this request is for historical actual dates and hours when open … even for just a partial part of a normal workday. Unfortunately| this data probably does not already exist in a simple 1-page “calendar” format. By “open to the public”| I mean those days (Monday – Friday) when members of the public could walk-in for assistance during posted “office hours”. It does not include those days that the building is closed to the public yet occupied by staff who are working. Also| if the building is open to the public for a period of time LESS THAN the posted hours for a normal work day| that “partial day” hours open data is part of this request. The records requested would show the data for each day having “public access” and for what period of time for that day (for example| Friday| August 28| 2020| 7:00am-5:00pm or Friday| August 28| 2020| 8:00am- noon.) Again| this request is for historical data regarding public access in the past. FOIA #3 – This request is similar to FOIA #2| but it is prospective for the remaining part of school year 2021 (Monday| August 31 – June 30| 2021). Instead of historical data (FOIA#2)| this request is for the record(s) which indicates when the Administrative Center is anticipated to be open to the public and the anticipated hours of public access for fiscal year/school year 2021 . This requested data may already be in a calendar format. In accordance with the FOIA statute| your public body has five days to respond to the requests. Therefore| the deadline for your response is Friday| September 4| 2020. In order to confirm your public body’s receipt of this request| please click “reply” before closing this e-mail so that you can send an e-mail to me acknowledging receipt. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions| please advise as soon as possible. Scott O’Connell [email protected] |
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