City of Asheville Submitted: January 7, 2021 | Updated: January 14, 2021

[See Editor’s Note](January 2021) Request for list of City of Asheville, NC employees who received COVID 19 bonus / hazard pay through 01/31/20

Original Subject: COVID Bonus list

Original Message:
I would like a list of employee who received the one time Covid-19 hazard pay bonus. Please Provide"

Name
Department
Amount of bonus/award

Entity: City of Asheville
Start Date / End Date: December 22, 2020 - January 30, 2021

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.

Editor’s Note 01/07/20: We received 5 separate requests all for nearly identical information (as the original request above). In order to simplify our process, and to avoid duplicating requests, we have combined the 5 new submissions, and have merged them into one, multi-part request (see below).

Additionally – The original submissions have been revised for some clarity. The request we send to City of Asheville, NC Gov will read as follows:

“Hi City of Asheville, NC Government,

I’d like to make a public records request for the following information:

A. Please provide a COVID Bonus list for City of Asheville Employees.

Specifically, I’d like a list of all City employees and staff who received a “one time Covid-19 hazard pay bonus”, “COVID hazard pay bonus”, “COVID-19 bonus”, or “COVID bonus”, during the specific time period of 12/15/20 through 01/30/21 (or the date the query is performed).

Please include:

Name of recipient
Department the recipient works in
Amount of the recipient’s bonus/award

B. I’d also like to know any Metrics used to determine which staff from each department qualified for the bonus, if metrics were used.

C. I’d also like to know if an equity analysis was applied or an inclusive lens was used by City leadership and/or department directors to determine who qualified for bonus pay and who would be excluded.

**[Editor’s Note to AVL Gov: If request Parts B and C are more of informational type of questions, rather than clear requests for specific public records, please let us know!]

Thank you for your assistance!”


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Status: Completed

Activity:

  • January 14, 2021 1:43 pm

    3 years ago

    from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
    to: Liz Harper <[email protected]>
    date: Jan 14, 2021, 1:43 PM
    subject: Re: Records Request: (January 2021) Request for list of City of Asheville, NC employees who received COVID 19 bonus / hazard pay through 01/31/20

     

    Good afternoon Liz,

     

    Thank you for sending this over. We have now marked this request as completed on our site.

     

    We appreciate your assistance!
    Sunshine Request


    Status: Completed
  • January 14, 2021 11:31 am

    3 years ago

    from: Liz Harper <[email protected]>
    to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
    date: Jan 14, 2021, 11:31 AM
    subject: Re: Records Request: (January 2021) Request for list of City of Asheville, NC employees who received COVID 19 bonus / hazard pay through 01/31/20

     

    Good morning Sunshine Request,
    The record responsive to your request can be found here. Let me know if you have any questions.
    All best,

     

    Liz Harper (she/her)
    Public Records Officer, City of Asheville
    (828) 259-5631 [email protected]

     

    **Editor’s Note: Please see referenced file at top left in documents, additionally the link that Liz provided us with is here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f81ffwJjmNjJI4wXszV4sZM8hpWQaOJl/view?usp=sharing


    Status: Response Received from Government
  • January 7, 2021 1:05 pm

    3 years ago

    from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
    to: Liz Harper <[email protected]>
    date: Jan 7, 2021, 1:05 PM
    subject: Records Request: (January 2021) Request for list of City of Asheville, NC employees who received COVID 19 bonus / hazard pay through 01/31/20

     

    Good afternoon City of Asheville,

     

    We’ve received a new public records request via our website www.sunshinerequest.com for information that may be available in your office.

     

    Please confirm receipt to let us know the request will begin processing, and if possible, please provide a rough estimate of when the request may be completed. We will plan on following up again around that time.

     

    ** 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.

     

    Here are the details of the request:

     

    Subject: (January 2021) Request for list of City of Asheville, NC employees who received COVID 19 bonus / hazard pay through 01/31/20

     

    Message: ““Hi City of Asheville, NC Government,

     

    I’d like to make a public records request for the following information:

     

    A. Please provide a COVID Bonus list for City of Asheville Employees.

     

    Specifically, I’d like a list of all City employees and staff who received a “one time Covid-19 hazard pay bonus”, “COVID hazard pay bonus”, “COVID-19 bonus”, or “COVID bonus”, during the specific time period of 12/15/20 through 01/30/21 (or the date the query is performed).

     

    Please include:

     

    Name of recipient
    Department the recipient works in
    Amount of the recipient’s bonus/award

     

    B. I’d also like to know any Metrics used to determine which staff from each department qualified for the bonus, if metrics were used.

     

    C. I’d also like to know if an equity analysis was applied or an inclusive lens was used by City leadership and/or department directors to determine who qualified for bonus pay and who would be excluded.

     

    **[Editor’s Note to AVL Gov: If request Parts B and C are more of informational type of questions, rather than clear requests for specific public records, please let us know!]

     

    Thank you for your assistance!”“

     

    Thank you,
    Sunshine Request


    Status: Sent to Government
  • January 7, 2021 11:55 am

    3 years ago

    Submitted to Sunshine Request
    Status: Pending