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Other (indicate in message) Submitted: June 6, 2025 | Updated: September 26, 2025
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.
Good afternoon Randy, Terry, Brent, Keita, (Records Officer / Custodian(s) of these Records),
Please reply promptly to the following public records request, which I’m making in accordance with NC Public Records Law. https://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bychapter/chapter_132.html
A. Please provide the total cost of the NC Office of the State Auditor Leadership Retreat held in Boone, NC during the week of April 28 - May 02, 2025. This should include the costs of lodging, per diems, facility space rented, mileage reimbursements, and any additional expenses incurred with State funds.
B. Please provide a copy of the objectives / agenda for the retreat.
C. Please provide the total number of attendees. (I’m not looking for names, just totals).
** I’m simply requesting an electronic copy of an electronic record, if one exists. I’m NOT asking for the opportunity to come in person to "inspect", nor to obtain a printed copy of, this electronic record. I’m requesting explicitly that any responsive info be provided to me via the electronic medium / electronic format (in which the copy of this record already exists). If you are unable to fulfill any or all parts of this request, please specifically cite where a reason for denial is justified under NC Public Records Law. **
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Please note that by submitting this request, I’m NOT agreeing to pay any potential fees or associated costs related to my request. If it isn’t possible to process the request without incurring fees, then please let me know the itemized potential cost and clear explanations of those charges upfront, and DO NOT proceed until I respond.
By Law I’m not required to provide a name or address to associate with a public records request. However, in order to move things along I’d like to clarify that this request is being made by:
Sunshine Request
PO Box 17391
Asheville, NC 28816
The request has been sent solely by me and my email address [email protected] . If anyone other than that email address contacts you to pursue a similar request, it did not come from me. Please do not commingle or treat that as an alteration or cancellation of my request – I intend to continue to pursue my request.
Thank you for your assistance!
** Sunshine Request (www.sunshinerequest.com) makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.
Status: Government Denied Request
Activity:
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September 26, 2025 4:55 pm
8 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>, [email protected]
date: Sep 26, 2025, 4:55 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good evening,
Under NC Public Records Law, your office is required to “promptly” process all public records requests. Essentially, this means that if you intentionally delay the fulfillment of a request by allowing it to “sit” until staff has availability to address it, or feels like answering my emails, then this could be considered a denial of a request. With this in mind, I want to highlight the court case referenced in item #6 of the following article, posted on the NC Press Association website. In this instance: “The trial court held that an unjustified one-month delay in production of records was tantamount to a denial”. http://www.ncpress.com/
stories/a-bakers-dozen-for- 2022nc-public-records-law,2390 Having made reasonable attempts to follow up several times since August 25th, and having received no response to any of my messages in over a month — I will now mark this aspect of my request as having been “Denied” by your organization.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Government Denied Request -
September 18, 2025 3:52 pm
9 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>, [email protected]
date: Sep 18, 2025, 3:52 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good afternoon Randy, all others CCed,
This is my 4th and final attempt to follow up with you since August 25 @ 6:24 PM, in regard to the following request. I have not received a response to any of my messages.
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.
To reiterate:
Requested Item B. asked that you “Please provide a copy of the objectives / agenda for the retreat.” The response from Randy was:
April 30
Workshop – Intentionally Great Leadership and Teambuilding for Success
Facilitator – Dr. Holly Sullenger
May 1-2
Division specific objectives set by each audit division (ISA, PA, FIN, DA), but included topics such as follow-up discussion on workshop topics, audit planning, timelines, scheduling and resource allocation, discussions on challenges and solutions, active procedures/reporting/planning.
I’d like to ask again that you please clarify whether a copy exists of the actual Objectives or Agendas? In other words — if any meeting “objectives” or “agendas” were emailed / mailed / printed / or physically distributed to attendees, then I’d like to receive a copy of each document.
Please note that an unjustified one-month delay in the production of records is considered tantamount to a denial. Having made reasonable attempts to follow up, and having received no response in almost a month, if I do not hear back by September 25th, I will need to mark this aspect of the request as having been “Denied” by your organization.
Thank you.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
September 12, 2025 12:29 pm
9 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Sep 11, 2025, 12:29 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good afternoon Randy,
I’m following up again regarding my email to you on Aug 25 @ 6:24 PM. I have not heard back.
To reiterate:
Re: Item B. “Please provide a copy of the objectives / agenda for the retreat.”
Can you please clarify whether a copy exists of the actual Objectives or Agendas?
If any meeting “objectives” or “agendas” were emailed / mailed / printed / or physically distributed to attendees, then I’d like to receive a copy of each document.
Thank you.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
September 5, 2025 6:06 pm
9 months ago
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from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected], Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Sep 5, 2025, 6:06 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hi Randy,
Following up on the previous (Aug 25, 2025, 6:24 PM). I have not heard back.
I’ll check in again in a few days if I don’t hear anything else.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
August 25, 2025 6:24 pm
9 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
date: Aug 25, 2025, 6:24 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hi Randy,
Thank you for providing the information above.
RE: Item B. Please provide a copy of the objectives / agenda for the retreat.
Can you please clarify whether a copy exists of the actual Objectives or Agendas?
In other words — if any meeting “objectives” or “agendas” were emailed / mailed / or physically distributed to attendees, then I’d like to receive a copy of each document.
Thank you!
Status: Clarification Requested -
August 25, 2025 12:07 pm
9 months ago
from: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: Aug 25, 2025, 12:07 PM
subject: RE: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hello—
Here is the information you requested. I would add that this event was planned prior to State Auditor Boliek taking office.
Best,
Randy
A. Please provide the total cost of the NC Office of the State Auditor Leadership Retreat held in Boone, NC during the week of April 28 – May 02, 2025. This should include the costs of lodging, per diems, facility space rented, mileage reimbursements, and any additional expenses incurred with State funds.
The total expenditures for the OSA Leadership Workshop and Offsite / Leadership Forum, including the workshop, room rental and parking at ASU, break service, and employee expenses (lodging, mileage, per diem) was $19,730.18.
B. Please provide a copy of the objectives / agenda for the retreat.
April 30
Workshop – Intentionally Great Leadership and Teambuilding for Success
Facilitator – Dr. Holly Sullenger
May 1-2
Division specific objectives set by each audit division (ISA, PA, FIN, DA), but included topics such as follow-up discussion on workshop topics, audit planning, timelines, scheduling and resource allocation, discussions on challenges and solutions, active procedures/reporting/planning.
C. Please provide the total number of attendees. (I’m not looking for names, just totals).
This was planned for 32, but due to unexpected absences, 29 were in attendance and had associated expenditures.
Status: Response Received from Government -
August 22, 2025 9:28 am
10 months ago
from: Lauren Eiswirth <[email protected]> via ncauditor.onmicrosoft.com
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: Aug 22, 2025, 9:29 AM
subject: Automatic reply: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.I am out of the office and will be returning on Monday, August 25th. If this is an urgent matter, please call the front desk at (919) 807-7500 and you will be directed to someone who can assist in my absence.
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>, [email protected]
date: Aug 22, 2025, 9:28 AM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hi Randy, Terry, Brent, Keita, Lauren,
I submitted the following public records request to your offices on June 06:
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.
I have not received a response to any of my emails on July 15th, July 24th, July 31st, or August 8th.
Under NC Public Records Law, your office is required to “promptly” process all public records requests. Essentially, this means that if you intentionally delay the fulfillment of a request by allowing it to “sit” until staff has availability to address it, or feels like answering my emails, then this could be considered a denial of a request. With this in mind, I want to highlight again the court case referenced in item #6 of the following article, posted on the NC Press Association website. In this instance: “The trial court held that an unjustified one-month delay in production of records was tantamount to a denial”. http://www.ncpress.
com/stories/a-bakers-dozen- for-2022nc-public-records-law, 2390 The records I requested cover a 5 day period. It has been 2.50 months since the request was submitted. Having made reasonable efforts to follow up, and having received no response since June 20th (2 months), I will now mark this request as having been “Denied” by your organization.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Government Denied Request -
August 8, 2025 4:44 pm
10 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>, [email protected]
date: Aug 8, 2025, 4:44 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good afternoon,
In regard to the following request, submitted on June 06:
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.
This is my fourth and final attempt to follow up since July 15th. I have not received a response.
Under NC Public Records Law, your office is required to “promptly” process all public records requests. Essentially, this means that if you intentionally delay the fulfillment of a request by allowing it to “sit” until staff has availability to address it, or feels like answering my emails, then this could be considered a denial of a request. With this in mind, I want to highlight the court case referenced in item #6 of the following article, posted on the NC Press Association website. In this instance: “The trial court held that an unjustified one-month delay in production of records was tantamount to a denial”. http://www.ncpress.
com/stories/a-bakers-dozen- for-2022nc-public-records-law, 2390 The records I’ve requested cover a 5 day period. I acknowledge you have other requests to process besides mine. However, it has been 2 months since the request was submitted, and I’m asking again that you please provide an anticipated date or some timeline for its completion.
Having made reasonable efforts to follow up, and having received no response in nearly a month — if I don’t hear back by August 15th, I will need to mark this request as having been “Denied” by your organization.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
July 31, 2025 3:36 pm
10 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>, [email protected]
date: Jul 31, 2025, 3:36 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hi all,
I submitted the following request to your offices on June 06 @ 3:26pm.
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.
I have not received a response since the last update from Randy on June 20:
“This request has been received and is being worked on.”
I followed up on July 15 and July 24. I have not received a response.
I’m asking again that you please provide an anticipated date or a timeline for the completion of my request.
I’ll make one more attempt to follow up in 1 week, if I don’t hear anything else before then.
Thank you.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
July 24, 2025 5:15 pm
10 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Jul 24, 2025, 5:15 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good afternoon,
Following up on the previous email (July 15). I have not received a response.
I submitted the following public records request to your offices on June 06 @ 3:26pm.
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.I’d like to ask again that you please provide an anticipated date or timeline for the completion of my request?
Thank you for your help.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
July 15, 2025 1:29 pm
11 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Jul 15, 2025, 1:29 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hi Randy, Terry, Brent, Keita,
I submitted the following request to your offices on June 06 @ 3:26pm.
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Can you please provide an anticipated timeline or a date for the completion of the request?
Thank you for your help!
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
June 20, 2025 11:06 am
1 year ago
from: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Jun 20, 2025, 11:06 AM
subject: RE: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Hi –
This request has been received and is being worked on.
Thank you,
Randy
Status: Government Processing Request -
June 19, 2025 6:26 pm
1 year ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Jun 19, 2025, 6:26 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good evening Randy, Terry, Brent, Keita,
I submitted the following public records request to your offices on June 06 @ 3:26pm.
(June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.I have not received a response since submitting the request.
Please confirm receipt of my request to let me know it has begun processing, and please provide an anticipated date for its completion. I will follow up again in 1 week, if I don’t hear anything else before then.
Thank you for your help!
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
June 6, 2025 3:26 pm
1 year ago
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from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Randy Brechbiel <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected], Terry Norwood <[email protected]>, Brent Woodcox <[email protected]>, “Keita N. Cannon” <[email protected]>
date: Jun 6, 2025, 3:26 PM
subject: Public records request. (June 2025) Request for NC Office of the State Auditor: Related to the Leadership Retreat in Boone, NC 04/28/25 – 05/02/25.Good afternoon Randy, Terry, Brent, Keita, (Records Officer / Custodian(s) of these Records),
Please reply promptly to the following public records request, which I’m making in accordance with NC Public Records Law. https://www.ncleg.net/
enactedlegislation/statutes/ html/bychapter/chapter_132. html A. Please provide the total cost of the NC Office of the State Auditor Leadership Retreat held in Boone, NC during the week of April 28 – May 02, 2025. This should include the costs of lodging, per diems, facility space rented, mileage reimbursements, and any additional expenses incurred with State funds.
B. Please provide a copy of the objectives / agenda for the retreat.
C. Please provide the total number of attendees. (I’m not looking for names, just totals).
** I’m simply requesting an electronic copy of an electronic record, if one exists. I’m NOT asking for the opportunity to come in person to “inspect”, nor to obtain a printed copy of, this electronic record. I’m requesting explicitly that any responsive info be provided to me via the electronic medium / electronic format (in which the copy of this record already exists). If you are unable to fulfill any or all parts of this request, please specifically cite where a reason for denial is justified under NC Public Records Law. **
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Please note that by submitting this request, I’m NOT agreeing to pay any potential fees or associated costs related to my request. If it isn’t possible to process the request without incurring fees, then please let me know the itemized potential cost and clear explanations of those charges upfront, and DO NOT proceed until I respond.
By Law I’m not required to provide a name or address to associate with a public records request. However, in order to move things along I’d like to clarify that this request is being made by:
Sunshine Request
PO Box 17391
Asheville, NC 28816The request has been sent solely by me and my email address [email protected] . If anyone other than that email address contacts you to pursue a similar request, it did not come from me. Please do not commingle or treat that as an alteration or cancellation of my request – I intend to continue to pursue my request.
Thank you for your assistance!
** Sunshine Request (www.sunshinerequest.com) makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.
Status: Sent to Government -
June 6, 2025 3:28 pm
1 year ago
Submitted to Sunshine Request
Status: Pending