access to audio recording of ordinary meeting of Manly Council held on 1 June 2015
Dear Manly Council,
Could you please arrange access to the audio recording of the ordinary meeting of Manly Council held on 1 June 2015 so that I can listen to it. This was a public meeting open to the public. The minutes only record the outcome of the vote on the motions and do not contain any details on the discussion or other matters . My preference is to be provided a cd of the audio or an electronic copy of the digital audio file.If this is not possible I can visit Manly Council at a convenient time to listen to the recording.
Yours faithfully,
Bruce Kitson
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Yours faithfully,
Public Officer
Manly Council
MC/15/96955
Dear Mr Kitson
Thank you for your request for information regarding access to audio recording of the ordinary meeting of Manly Council held on 1 June 2015.
To enable me to process your request, please complete the Access to Information form attached above and return to [email address].
I have provided a link to Council’s Schedule of Fees and Charges, www.manly.nsw.gov.au/council/fees-and-ch..., for your information.
You can read more about the Access to Information process on our website www.manly.nsw.gov.au/council/access-to-c... .
Kind Regards,
Shauna Villis
Access to Information Officer
E: [email address]
P: 99761500
1 Belgrave Street Manly NSW 2095
D: 02 9976 1688
F: 99761400
PO Box 82 Manly NSW 1655 [email address]
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Dear Shauna Villis,
Can you please regard this as an informal request. I am advised that I am not required to complete the form supplied
Yours sincerely,
Bruce Kitson
Henare Degan left an annotation ()
Bruce sent us the following query (published with permission):
>Manly Council requested that I complete their request form. I would like to forward this vis the right to know so that all communications are transparent and available to other interested parties.
>Is there a function so that I can attach a pdf file to my reply?
Hi Bruce,
Thanks for getting in touch and for trying to keep your request public and available to all on Right To Know. You cannot attach a PDF to requests on Right To Know (you shouldn't have to, so we don't have a function for it) and as that form contains a lot of personal information you probably wouldn't want it in public either. But we'll try to work out a way through this.
I just called the NSW Information and Privacy Commission (1800 472 679) and spoke to Kristina. She advised that if you want to make an informal request then there is no requirement to fill in the form (you can even make them over the phone!). Strictly speaking there is also no requirement to fill out a form for a formal request but she said it helps by ensuring your request is valid under s41 of the Act (http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/fragvi...).
There are trade-offs either way. If you make an informal request you basically get none of the rights that the law would otherwise provide you, such as a defined timeframe for a response (i.e. they can just ignore you). However if you choose to make a formal request it's a $30 application fee before you even start.
I think the best thing to do is to reply to the council and ask if you can make this an informal request via email. If they decide not to help then you can go down the formal request path.
If you decide to do that you can still ask them to reply to your request using this righttoknow.org.au email addres which will mean the response will appear here for everyone to benefit from.
Cheers,
Henare
Right To Know administrator