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** The above submission has been revised for clarity. As originally written, it is unclear what specific information the sender hopes to receive. The request we send in will read as follows:
Subject: (July 2021) Request for Transylvania County, NC: Cedar Mountain Small Area Plan communications 11/01/2020 – 06/07/2021
Message:
Hello Transylvania County, NC Government (Records Officer and Board of Commissioners Clerk),
I’d like to make a public records request for the following information under NC Public Records Law.
Ref: https://www.ncleg.net/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bychapter/chapter_132.html
This request relates to public documents made or received by Transylvania County Government and its Staff:
Please provide all communications [emails, mail, electronic documents, text messages, other written documents, and any other electronic medium] generated during the course of conducting the business of the County Commission appointed “Cedar Mountain Small Area Plan” (also known as CMSAP, SAP, the Small Area Plan, or Small Area Planning Process for Cedar Mountain).
Specifically, I’d like to see all those relevant communications which were sent to, written by, copied on, CCed, BCCed, or forwarded, to the following County employees and Officials’ email addresses during the specific time period of November 01, 2020 through June 7, 2021:
– Jamie Laughter
– Allen McNeal
– Jason Chappell
– Jake Dalton
– Mike Hawkins
– Page Lemel
– Larry Chapman
– Theresa (or Teresa) McCall
– David Guice
——–For all requested items above, please provide all .pdfs, files, attachments, videos, hyperlinks, etc. that are indicated within the responsive records. For example: A .pdf that is an attachment within an email, should also be provided as a document along with the responsive emails.
Please include all of those additional documents where applicable, as relates to the requested information above.
If the records are ultimately too large to send via emailed file share, I’d ask that you please create a public Google Drive folder / link or some other file format to transfer the files electronically.
Thank you for your assistance!
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