NOTICE OF APPEAL
July 3, 2018
Chandler Goodwin
Cedar Hills – Chief Administrative Officer
10246 N. Canyon Road
Cedar Hill, UT 84062
Chandler,
On June 15, 2018, Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government (CHCRG) submitted a GRAMA request. (see attached copy below) Ms Mulvey’s June 22, 2018 letter rejecting our request was explained by her as follows:
In that this is a duplicate request, and the information has already been provided to you, the city considers your February 22, 2018 and your June 15, 2018 GRAMA requests completed and fulfilled.
Ms. Mulvey makes fatal mistakes in her claim of GRAMA Requests being lawfully and thoroughly addressed:
1. Our February 22 GRAMA request clearly stated “complete” GRAMA request history, which we understand are usually compiled by City’s into a single "index”. Ms. Mulvey apparently chose to ignore the specific request, or she chose to not seek clarification as to what “complete” meant, and elected to presume the request was for her history of GRAMA request, and instead provided the incomplete index history giving only what she had added to the history since 2011.
Therefore, Cedar Hills City Recorder Ms Mulvey failed to provide our request for the “complete” GRAMA request history.
2. Our June 15, 2018 contemplated Ms. Mulvey’s apparent willful ignorance toward full-filling the request by resubmitting the GRAMA request of February 22, 2018 which read, “Please provide an electronic copy of the City’s complete and current GRAMA Request Index doc,” notably adding,
(NOTE: “Complete” means ALL of the City’s short history — not just from 2011 as previously and erroneously “fulfilled” in our Feb 2018 GRAMA request.)
Mr. Goodwin, do you believe that the 2011 Index doc provided by Ms. Mulvey in with her February doc of 2011 to 2018 responsive to the new June 15, 2018 request which clarified for her our requests of public records includes the “COMPLETE” compilation of GRAMA Requests during our “ALL of the City’s short history”? Does Cedar Hills have any history before 2011? I know it does as I served as a Councilman from 1994 to 2000, and believe our incorporated Cedar Hills began around 1977, right? Did CHCRG receive a complete history of GRAMA Requests from approximately 1977 through 2018?
We know these documents were compiled in an Index by Ms. Mulvey’s predessesor, the highly competent and professional City Recorder Kim Holindrake who many believe was fired for political reasons which included her honesty in legally and lawfully fulfilling GRAMA requests for public records some elected officials and City employees did not want released. (see … )
Is Ms. Mulvey being pressured by you or the Mayor, or Council or any City staff to NOT provide fully responsive public records to the public? When we met early on in your tenure you assured us (Jerry Dearinger and I) that you were going to insure that your operation was run in an open, honest and transparent fashion. With the above concern, the recent State Records Committee hearing DENIAL based on questionable testimony provide under penalty of perjury, and the $2,400 estimate to provide golf records, which in the end cost $0 dollars after we helped your “capable” team figure out how to access the City’s own records, etc., etc. ad infinitum, we are wondering how you might FIX your internal staff problem the City Attorney advised me of with your apology.
REMEDY: We respectfully demand that the very simple and easy to fulfill COMPLETE HISTORY OF ALL GRAMA REQUESTS SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE CITY (approximately 1977) be provided immediately — by Friday July 6 as a gesture of good will please?
Also be advised that in light of our 30-day limit from receipt of the State Records Committee DENIAL to put all City Records on litigation hold please.
Respectfully,
Ken Cromar – researcher for
Cedar Hills Citizens for Responsible Government
former elected Cedar Hills Councilman
