If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.  ~Mark Twain

New GRAMA Request for Emails & Texts – submitted to City Oct. 1, 2013:

We, Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government, respectfully request access (Utah Code 63G-2-102) to all email and text records, from whatever source City, and/or personal email and text accounts, etc., from April 1, 2012 to present, in their current form, between any and/or all of the following individuals before, after, or during their term of Cedar Hills public employ, as current (Oct. 1, 2013) & then (April 1, 2012):

• Mayors and City Council members,
• City Managers, Assist. City Managers,
• City Recorder and any assistants,
• Finance Director (and/or CFO positions) and Department Assistants,
• Golf Course Managers & Assistant Managers,
• Gretchen & Greg Gordon,
• and former Mayor Brad Sears.

It is presumed that the records, which are electronic in origin (“electronic mail” or “e-mails”), are cost-effectively maintained as such, and it should be a simple thing to allow access to those existing records, as is, and do so FREE of charge and is “encouraged to do so”, — according to Utah Code 63G-2-201: …

… Additionally, we assume the City has also learned [from our similar request last year] that spending reportedly $30,000 (and possibly as much as $120,000 – exact amount is unreported) in City legal fees, in an unsuccessful attempt to withhold and/or not secure legally required public documents until ORDERED by the Utah State Records Committee to do so – on the proclaimed “principle” of $766 in records gathering fees.  May we respectfully point out that “$30,000” for the sake of “principle” is significantly more than $766 or FREE. …

For the complete GRAMA request, open this PDF… GRAMA Request by CHCRG – City Emails & Texts 1Apr2012 to present