Cedar Hills leaders stand their ground: no money, then no records, they say
Cathy Allred Daily Herald / Sunday June 29, 2014 – front page
CEDAR HILLS — City leaders are standing their ground about releasing any information, including signed affidavits, for those seeking information through the Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA).
Cedar Hills city officials and north Utah County residents who have made records requests of the city reached a mediation agreement that city leaders would sign and notarize affidavits stating the elected officials and city staff did not conduct government business through personal emails, texts or phones.
“As of yesterday, I looked into the audio recording of the meeting and they said that they will. That is a real simple thing just to sign the affidavit,” said Ken Cromar, Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government (CHCRG) representative and former council member.
At a mediation meeting earlier this month with a state official, city leaders said they were ready to sign an affidavit according to Sam Bushman, a nationally syndicated talk show host for LibertyRoundTable.com and Cromar, who recorded the session.
So far those affidavits have not been produced.
Because of the discrepancy in expectations from the mediation meeting, the mediator Utah State Records Ombudsman Rosemary Cundiff is seeking to arrange a second mediation session.
Cedar Hills mayor, Gary Gygi, said the city staff and representatives would not be agreeing to another mediation meeting.
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