2005.12.29
Thursday
EST: 09:20 (UT:-5:00)

to: Dolores Sassano, Clerk, Town of Wethersfield
& Bonnie Therrien, Manager, Town of Wethersfield

re: Missing minutes of Boards and Commissions (and Committees) of the Town of Wethersfield, 2005

Dear Mrs. Sassano and Mrs. Therrien,

I visited the the Town's website today and extracted from its page involving appointments to boards and commissions and committees (hereinafter, B&C's) the following (partial) list. (I have not included here those entries which did not seem fitting - such as harbor master, fence viewers, municipal agents, et cetera. Please pardon the ALL CAPS since they were used on the Town's website as subheadings for the listed appointees.)

Appointed Officials Ad Hoc & Standing Committees (partial)
As of December 19, 2005
taken from
http://wethersfieldct.com/clerk/appointments.html
12/29/2005

ARTIFICIAL SURFACE FOOTBALL FIELD ADVISORY COMMITTEE ASSESSMENT APPEALS, BOARD OF BUILDING COMMITTEE, TOWN HALL/LIBRARY II BUILDING APPEALS, Board of CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE CITATION HEARING BOARD CONSERVATION COMMISSION CULTURE AND THE ARTS, Committee on DESIGN REVIEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE DISABILITIES, WETHERSFIELD ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR PEOPLE WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT COMMISSION EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMITTEE ETHICS, Board of FAIR RENT COMMISSION FLOOD & EROSION CONTROL BOARD HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION HOUSING AUTHORITY HUMAN RIGHTS AND RELATIONS COMMISSION INFORMATION & TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE INLAND WETLANDS AND WATER COURSES COMMISSION INSURANCE COMMITTEE LIBRARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS PARKS & RECREATION BOARD PERSONNEL APPEALS BOARD PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION SENIOR CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE SHADE TREE COMMISSION SILAS DEANE HIGHWAY ADVISORY COMMITTEE SOLOMON WELLES HOUSE COMMITTEE STRATEGIC PLAN COMMITTEE TOURISM COMMISSION VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS' PENSION COMMITTEE YOUTH ADVISORY BOARD ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS

To help the public understand the extent of non-compliance with the FOIC/CGS statutes and regulations on the part of the Town's B&C's, I am formally requesting (under Freedom of Information Act, CT; or FOIA) from your offices, ie. the Town of Wethersfield,

• a complete list (as of this moment) of such delinquent B&C's that are have not submitted their minutes to the Clerk YET,
• indicating the number of such missing minutes per B-or-C, and
• indicating the number of days that such missing minutes are now in non-compliance with State regulations.

Since the Town, through the office of at least the Clerk, has brought up the issue of the difficulty for various responsible parties in the administration and in each of the B&C's to create and submit minutes of their meetings in the required, timely fashion to the Clerk, the public has a right to know the true, detailed, and public extent of the particular problem.

The Town of Wethersfield, via the offices of the Clerk and the Manager, has yet, to the best of my knowledge, to provide the Council and the Public with any detailed or itemized public information backing up this reported situation.

Since such a problem has been reported by the Town to exist (12/19/2005), I presume that such information is readily available and at hand. Consequently, I request that I be provided the above requested information as soon as possible under the terms of the FOIA/CT.

Respectfully,

By Email (foi@snet.net)
(Electronic Returned Receipt Requested)

Kenneth E. Sokolowski
Wethersfield, CT 06109

Dr.Ken Sokolowski
- FOOT HEALTH SERVICES -
Wethersfield, CT, 06109 U.S.A.
Phone: (860) 529-6845