Editor’s Note: Sunshine Request makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.
Other (indicate in message) Submitted: March 26, 2025 | Updated: April 9, 2025
(March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.
Good afternoon Stephanie, Cortney, Cara, (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
The type of basic salary data I’m requesting is simple to provide, is very commonly produced, and is widely considered a matter of public record as part of the public personnel file of employees. Many NC entities fulfill requests like this via email in 1 week, and in many cases 1 day. You’ve also fulfilled a similar request for me before.
Please provide the names and salaries of all Town of Laurel Park, NC employees who were working at any point during the 2025 fiscal year (July 01, 2024 - June 30, 2025). Please include the following:
1) Employee first / last name
2) Date of hire
3) Position / title / department
4) Salary [including hourly wage, hourly rate, or salary — whichever payment structure is applicable to the employee]
If it isn’t possible for you to query the data in the manner requested [during historical periods of time], please clarify / explain. In that case, please provide these records as of the “present day” (on the date the query is performed).
Ideally, I’d like to receive the responsive records in an Excel or other machine-readable format. If any / all of this info is already publicly available online, please provide a link to where it can be accessed.
** 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: Completed
Documents:
Activity:
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April 9, 2025 3:07 pm
1 week ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Finance Account <[email protected]>
date: Apr 9, 2025, 3:07 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Hi Cortney,
My apologies for the delay.
Thank you for clarifying.
Later this afternoon or early tomorrow I’ll mark the request as “completed” on our website.
Have a great afternoon!
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Completed -
April 4, 2025 2:23 pm
2 weeks ago
from: Finance Account <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: Apr 4, 2025, 2:23 PM
subject: RE: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.The report does not give me the option to put in a date range.
Thank you,
Cortney Kidd
Finance Officer
Town of Laurel Park
441 White Pine Drive | Laurel Park, NC 28739
(o) 828-693-4840 | (F) 828-696-4948
Status: Clarification Provided -
April 3, 2025 4:41 pm
2 weeks ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Finance Account <[email protected]>
date: Apr 3, 2025, 4:41 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Hi Cortney,
Thank you for sharing the document above.
To clarify — I requested the following:
Please provide the names and salaries of all Town of Laurel Park, NC employees who were working at any point during the 2025 fiscal year (July 01, 2024 – June 30, 2025). Please include the following:
1) Employee first / last name
2) Date of hire
3) Position / title / department
4) Salary [including hourly wage, hourly rate, or salary — whichever payment structure is applicable to the employee]If it isn’t possible for you to query the data in the manner requested [during historical periods of time], please clarify / explain. In that case, please provide these records as of the “present day” (on the date the query is performed).
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Looking at the document’s title, I assume that the data you’ve provided is only for current employees (working as of the present day). Can you please specify whether it was not possible for you to query the data in the manner I requested? And if so, please explain why.
Thank you for your help.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Clarification Requested -
April 3, 2025 4:07 pm
2 weeks ago
from: Finance Account <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: Apr 3, 2025, 4:07 PM
subject: RE: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Attached is the information you requested.
Thanks,
Cortney Kidd
Finance Officer
Town of Laurel Park
441 White Pine Drive | Laurel Park, NC 28739
(o) 828-693-4840 | (F) 828-696-4948
**Editor’s Note: Please see the 1 file referenced (“Sunshine-Request-4.3.25.pdf”) at top left in our Documents section.
Status: Response Received from Government -
April 3, 2025 2:45 pm
2 weeks ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Finance Account <[email protected]>
cc: Town Clerk <[email protected]>
date: Apr 3, 2025, 2:45 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Hi Cortney,
I’m following up on my records request submitted to your offices on March 26th:
(March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Please confirm receipt of my last message to you on March 27th (4:43pm), and please let me know when you anticipate completion of my request.
I’ll follow up again in one week, if I don’t hear anything else before then.
Thank you for your help.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Follow up -
March 27, 2025 4:43 pm
3 weeks ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: Finance Account <[email protected]>
cc: Town Clerk <[email protected]>
date: Mar 27, 2025, 4:43 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Hi Cortney,
Since you’re asking — the 2022 request / report I’ve been provided previously can be found here:
The file name is “Employee-Salary-Request-3.28.
22.xlsx“, at top left under “Documents”. ———
However, please note when I said to you that “You’ve also fulfilled a similar request for me before” … that 2022 request is not identically the same as what I’m requesting now.
Please fulfill my March 26, 2025 request as it was written.
Thank you.
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Clarification Provided -
March 27, 2025 3:50 pm
3 weeks ago
from: Finance Account <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
cc: Town Clerk <[email protected]>
date: Mar 27, 2025, 3:50 PM
subject: RE: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Can you provide a copy of the report that has been previously sent to you?
Thanks,
Cortney Kidd
Finance Officer
Town of Laurel Park
441 White Pine Drive | Laurel Park, NC 28739
(o) 828-693-4840 | (F) 828-696-4948
Status: Government Processing Request -
March 26, 2025 5:01 pm
3 weeks ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: [email protected]
cc: [email protected], Town Manager <[email protected]>
date: Mar 26, 2025, 5:01 PM
subject: Public records request. (March 2025) Request for Town of Laurel Park, NC Government: All employees and salaries for FY 2025. Or, as of the present day.Good afternoon Stephanie, Cortney, Cara, (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
The type of basic salary data I’m requesting is simple to provide, is very commonly produced, and is widely considered a matter of public record as part of the public personnel file of employees. Many NC entities fulfill requests like this via email in 1 week, and in many cases 1 day. You’ve also fulfilled a similar request for me before.
Please provide the names and salaries of all Town of Laurel Park, NC employees who were working at any point during the 2025 fiscal year (July 01, 2024 – June 30, 2025). Please include the following:
1) Employee first / last name
2) Date of hire
3) Position / title / department
4) Salary [including hourly wage, hourly rate, or salary — whichever payment structure is applicable to the employee]If it isn’t possible for you to query the data in the manner requested [during historical periods of time], please clarify / explain. In that case, please provide these records as of the “present day” (on the date the query is performed).
Ideally, I’d like to receive the responsive records in an Excel or other machine-readable format. If any / all of this info is already publicly available online, please provide a link to where it can be accessed.
** 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. **
————————————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 -
March 26, 2025 5:01 pm
3 weeks ago
Submitted to Sunshine Request
Status: Pending