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failure of the Boston Finance Commission to comply… Commission meeting minutes.

June 18, 2008 By theszak

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth

Public Records Division

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Alan N. Cote

Supervisor of Records

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pre at sec.state.ma.us

June 13, 2006

SPR08/026

The Honorable Martha Coakley

Attorney General of the Commonwealth

One Ashburton Place, 20th Floor

Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Dear Attorney General Coakley:

    I am hereby notifying you of the failure of the Boston Finance

Commission (Commission) to comply with my April 24, 2008 order to

provide Commission meeting minutes.

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    This office has found that the requested records are public and

subject to mandatory disclosure. See Letter Determination of the

Supervisor of Public Records, SPR08/026 (April 24, 2008).

    If the custodian refuses or fails to comply with any such order,

the Supervisor of Public Records may notify the Attorney General who

may take whatever measures she deems necessary to insure compliance.

See G. L. c. 66, s 10(b) (2006 ed.)

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    Enclosed please find a copy of my order as well as relevant

materials from the case file. I respectfully request that you review

this matter and take whatever measures you deem necessary for its

resolution.

Very truly yours,

Alan N. Cote

Supervisor of Records

email

pre at sec.state.ma.us

One Ashburton Place, 17th Floor, Room 1719

Boston Massachusetts 02108

617 727-2832

Fax 617 727-5914

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Comments

  1. shillelaghlaw says

    June 18, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    No other municipality in the Commonwealth that isn’t in receivership has anything like it. It’s a relic from the days when the Yankee-Republican dominated legislature didn’t think that Irish-Democrats were capable of running the City of Boston. (It’s almost kind of colonialist!)
     

    • farnkoff says

      June 19, 2008 at 11:38 pm

      Sounds like the Attorney General owes you some real action on this. The City of Boston is, too often, a black box that thinks it can run on a “need to know” basis.

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