Mr
Ashley Parker
FOI
Coordinator
Department
of Local Government and Communities
GPO
Box R1250
PERTH
WA 6844
Your
Ref. 27-15;E1506304
By email to ashley.parker@dlgc.wa.gov.au
Dear
Mr Parker,
Freedom of Information Act
1992
Thank
you for your letter of 26 February 2015.
I apologise for the delay in my reply.
I
agree to your request to remove third party information from documents
identified as relevant to my application.
To
expedite matters, I have decided for the present not to pursue items 14 and 15
of my application (dot points 6 and 7 in your letter of 12 February 2015). Instead, I will in due course submit them,
slightly revised, in a separate application.
Your having already identified many relevant documents should hasten the
progress of that application.
I
have no objection to your answering my application in stages. It appears from your letter that your
Department is ready to provide an immediate Notice of Decision regarding your
dot points 3 and 5 (suspension / legal communication) in your letter of 12
February 2015.
I note
that you have proposed 30 April 2015 as the date for Notice of Decision
regarding all three remaining categories (your dot points 1, 2 and 4). Since I have considerably reduced the scope of
my current application, I would hope that an earlier date might be possible.
You will no doubt be familiar with the biblical aphorism ‘Hope deferred maketh
the heart sick’ (Proverbs 13:12).
Yours
sincerely
James Plumridge
(Dr)
James Plumridge
ReplyDeleteAshley Porqueria,... there is much I could say about this person but I won't because it will not do the cause any good. I would have to agree with the eloquently put previous comment, the annual report tells you nothing, standardised claptrap, the Department doesn't want to release information which could potentially damage it.
James , be done with it and lodge a separate application requesting copies of records relating to:-
Complaints from ratepayers, residents and Councillors of the SOY regarding conduct of Council meetings and other Council activities and processes, including administrative activities and processes received by the Department since the present Council was elected in 2013.
Complaints from ratepayers, residents and Councillors of the SOY regarding conduct of Council meetings and other Council activities and processes, including administrative activities and Processes received by the Department while Councillors Hooper and Boyle were Shire presidents.
Also, point out to the department that you are happy for third party information to be deleted, whilst reserving the right to lodge a further FOI application if any particular complaint is of interest. This will speed the process up considerably as well as lessen the cost.
Thanks, Mick, on careful reflection I think your approach is the right one.
DeleteNotice the inclusion of Councillors.
ReplyDeleteParticipation, open and accountable, probity ......weasel words by a department focussed on doing the York community over and avoiding the release of the material that will condemn themselves. Like pulling teeth while they play for time. But we have a lot of time. Ideally the claim could be split up into multi claims by different people perhaps? Thank you and stick to your guns.
ReplyDeleteWrite back to him and tell him GFYYSFF
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