{"id":16336,"date":"2020-10-05T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=16336"},"modified":"2020-11-23T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T18:14:50","slug":"open-records-request-additional-response-from-city-of-dalton-re-missing-years-affidavit-from-oakwood-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2020\/10\/05\/open-records-request-additional-response-from-city-of-dalton-re-missing-years-affidavit-from-oakwood-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Open records request &#8211; additional response from City of Dalton RE: Missing year&#8217;s affidavit from Oakwood Cafe  *Kasey Carpenter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16110\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16110\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16110\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dalton_Logo21-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dalton_Logo21-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Dalton_Logo21.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: City of Dalton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The response on top was received here Oct 2, 5:23PM. We are grateful for the follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>_<\/p>\n<p>Mr. King,<\/p>\n<p>I am sending a second follow up message to reply to the concerns you relayed; specifically, you noted that copies of the 2013 and 2014 Occupational Tax Certificate applications\/affidavits for Oakwood Caf\u00e9 were not present in the responsive document which we relayed to you.<\/p>\n<p>I checked with the City Clerk\u2019s office and was reminded that the retention schedule for SAVE and E-Verify affidavits is three (3) years according to the guidelines provided by the Secretary of State for Georgia (see details below. Thus, the City is simply not in possession of those physical records you requested for the years 2013 and 2014 (applications\/affidavits). If you review the Excel spreadsheet documents which the City provided you, however, you will see that Oakwood\u2019s records for those years are listed as being submitted to the Georgia state audit system in compliance with the law.<\/p>\n<p>I regret that we did not let you know in advance that we did not possess those physical records as indicated above, but the City\u2019s response to your records request provided all of the responsive records in our possession at the time of your request.<\/p>\n<p>LG-16-038 | SAVE and E-Verify Affidavits<br \/>\nCategory: Personnel<br \/>\nDescription: Affidavits testifying to an individual&#8217;s right to receive public benefits. Note: Retention applies only to those affidavits not maintained as part of another record, such as a contract or bid response.<br \/>\nRetention: 3 years<br \/>\nClassification: Temporary-Short-Term<br \/>\nUpdated: October 20, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the opportunity to respond to your follow up questions, and feel free to contact me directly by email or phone if I can assist you further.<\/p>\n<p>Best Regards,<br \/>\nJason<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE \u2013 MY EMAIL DOMAIN HAS CHANGED \u2013 UPDATE CONTACT TO EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW<\/p>\n<p>jparker@daltonga.gov<\/p>\n<p>Jason Parker<br \/>\nDalton City Administrator<br \/>\n300 W. Waugh Street<br \/>\nP.O. Box 1205<br \/>\nDalton, GA 30722<br \/>\n706-529-2404<br \/>\nwww.daltonga.gov<\/p>\n<p>From: Jason Parker<br \/>\nSent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 2:47 PM<br \/>\nTo: &#8216;D.A. King&#8217;<br \/>\nSubject: RE: City of Dalton Response to Request for Public Records<\/p>\n<p>Good Afternoon,<\/p>\n<p>I apologize for the delay in response and thanks for your follow-up questions as we strive to respond accurately and timely to all requests for public records. I am checking to see if there was an oversight in the records search and will get back with you shortly.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to call or email if you have questions in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE \u2013 MY EMAIL DOMAIN HAS CHANGED \u2013 UPDATE CONTACT TO EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW<\/p>\n<p>jparker@daltonga.gov<\/p>\n<p>Jason Parker<br \/>\nDalton City Administrator<br \/>\n300 W. Waugh Street<br \/>\nP.O. Box 1205<br \/>\nDalton, GA 30722<br \/>\n706-529-2404<br \/>\nwww.daltonga.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The response on top was received here Oct 2, 5:23PM. We are grateful for the follow-up. _ Mr. King, I am sending a second follow up message to reply to the concerns you relayed; specifically, you noted that copies of the 2013 and 2014 Occupational Tax Certificate applications\/affidavits for Oakwood Caf\u00e9 were not present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16554,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions\/16554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}