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Editor’s Note 03/21/23: The request above has been revised for clarity. As written originally, it was unclear to what public or government entity, city, state, it should be sent:
Date sent in to Sunshine: 03/15/23
Original Subject: (BEMC) Brunswick Electric Membership Cooperation
Original Message: “I would like to request a list of all employees with their name, position, and salary. Thank you. ”
Government Entity: Other
Start Date / End Date: January 01, 2022 – March 01, 2023However, we will assume that the sender is referring to the BEMC Headquarters, Brunswick Electric Membership Corporation, in North Carolina. Found here:
https://www.bemc.org/ , Board of Directors
Although is unclear whether this organization / corporation / cooperative is an entity that falls under NC Public Records Law, we will attempt to send in the request and see what we get back. They do not have a request form or other method of contact listed (besides phone), so we will attempt to use the “Contact Form” for Members to submit the request:
https://www.bemc.org/contact-us/
Additionally — The sender indicated that the “Start / End date” for the responsive records should be “January 01, 2022 – March 01, 2023″. We have revised this instead to say “… as of the present day”. Based on our experience requesting salary data from many other entities – it is unlikely that BEMC will be able to query the data in that manner (on a specific date in time, or all salaries throughout an entire year, for several years, or “every month of the year, every year”). For some reason, most entities are only able to search for and provide this information “as of the present day”.
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