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 03/21/23: The submission above has been marked as “Completed”.
In our experiences submitting records requests to the County — We’ve been told by Kassi Day / Buncombe County Gov. that employee salary info is already publicly available on their website via the following URL:
https://www.buncombecounty.org/transparency/dashboards/financial/county-positions-pay-salaries.aspx
If after reviewing their website you are unable to obtain the records you’d like to receive, please revise and submit a new request through our website. Please clearly indicate a specific date range and any other specific details, subject matter, message, keywords, etc. about the exact public records that are being requested.
** Additionally, please note: The sender indicated the “Start / End date” for the responsive records should be “March 01, 2022 – February 28, 2023”. Based on our experiences requesting salary data from many entities – it is unlikely Buncombe County would 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”. We’re happy to send in a new request once it’s revised / resubmitted to our site, but just wanted to note that possibility for your consideration when re-writing the request.
If this information is useful — we also want to mention we completed a request in August 2022 that called for “Buncombe County Employees who received a pay increase as of 05/21/22 (or as of the date the query is performed)” … “name of employee, the amount of the pay increase, the employee’s department, and the employee’s position / title.”
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☀️ Requests that are only informational questions, and requests that are not addressed to government entities.
Sunshine Request is a site built to make requests for public records to the government — Public records are recorded information such as documents, government emails, and data sets.
In the interest of preserving our team’s time to focus on the high volume of requests on our site, as well to respect the staff time of government entities fulfilling records requests, Sunshine Request will no longer fulfill “requests” that are just informational type questions for government entities to answer.
We also will not fulfill requests made to non-government entities.
It’s the requester’s responsibility to write the request in a manner that clearly specifies a record that is being requested, and to what government entity it should be sent.
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