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Other (indicate in message) Submitted: September 30, 2025 | Updated: October 2, 2025
(September 2025) Request for Vance County, NC Public Schools: List of all employees and salaries 06/01/2024 – 06/30/2025.
Good afternoon John, Melissa, Marsha, Aarika, Chelsa, (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
Basic salary data is simple to provide, very commonly produced, and widely considered a matter of public record as part of the public personnel file of employees. Most NC schools fulfill requests like this via email in 1 week, and in many cases 1 day.
Please provide the names and salaries of all Vance County, NC Public Schools employees / faculty / staff working at any point during the period of June 01, 2024 through 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 annual salary -- whichever payment structure is applicable to the employee]
If for some reason it is not possible to query the data in the manner requested (during specific periods of time), then please explain this. In that case, it will be sufficient if you provide the responsive info for current employees “as of the present day.”
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, but 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
Activity:
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October 2, 2025 5:12 pm
8 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: “Suther, John” <[email protected]>
date: Oct 2, 2025, 5:12 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (September 2025) Request for Vance County, NC Public Schools: List of all employees and salaries 06/01/2024 – 06/30/2025.Hi John,
Thank you for fixing that.
I’ve reviewed the document, and later this evening or early tomorrow I’ll mark the request as “Completed” on our website.
Have a good evening!
~ The Sunshine Request Team
Status: Completed -
October 2, 2025 1:49 pm
8 months ago
from: Suther, John <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: Oct 2, 2025, 1:49 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (September 2025) Request for Vance County, NC Public Schools: List of all employees and salaries 06/01/2024 – 06/30/2025.Two tabs in attached file.
**Editor’s Note: Please see the 1 file referenced (“records-request-10.2.25.xlsx”) at top left in our Documents section.
Status: Response Received from Government -
October 2, 2025 12:16 pm
8 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: “Suther, John” <[email protected]>
date: Oct 2, 2025, 12:16 PM
subject: Re: Public records request. (September 2025) Request for Vance County, NC Public Schools: List of all employees and salaries 06/01/2024 – 06/30/2025.Hi John,
Thank you for your prompt response.
Can you please clarify whether it was “not possible” to query the records in the manner requested:
… all Vance County, NC Public Schools employees / faculty / staff working at any point during the period of June 01, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
If that was the case, can you please explain the reasoning?
Thank you!
Status: Clarification Requested -
October 2, 2025 11:57 am
8 months ago
from: Suther, John <[email protected]>
to: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
date: Oct 2, 2025, 11:57 AM
subject: Re: Public records request. (September 2025) Request for Vance County, NC Public Schools: List of all employees and salaries 06/01/2024 – 06/30/2025.**Editor’s Note: Please see the 1 file referenced (“public-records-request-10.2.25.xlsx”) at top left in our Documents section.
Status: Response Received from Government -
September 30, 2025 5:03 pm
8 months ago
from: Sunshine Request <[email protected]>
to: “Suther, John” <[email protected]>
cc: [email protected], “Abbott, Marsha” <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected]
date: Sep 30, 2025, 5:03 PM
subject: Public records request. (September 2025) Request for Vance County, NC Public Schools: List of all employees and salaries 06/01/2024 – 06/30/2025.Good afternoon John, Melissa, Marsha, Aarika, Chelsa, (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 Basic salary data is simple to provide, very commonly produced, and widely considered a matter of public record as part of the public personnel file of employees. Most NC schools fulfill requests like this via email in 1 week, and in many cases 1 day.
Please provide the names and salaries of all Vance County, NC Public Schools employees / faculty / staff working at any point during the period of June 01, 2024 through 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 annual salary — whichever payment structure is applicable to the employee]If for some reason it is not possible to query the data in the manner requested (during specific periods of time), then please explain this. In that case, it will be sufficient if you provide the responsive info for current employees “as of the present day.”
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, but 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 r[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 -
September 30, 2025 5:01 pm
8 months ago
Submitted to Sunshine Request
Status: Pending