{"id":10927,"date":"2025-08-09T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10927"},"modified":"2025-08-09T21:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T01:24:57","slug":"revisiting-public-records-fees-and-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=10927","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Public Records Fees and Access"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town council meeting 8\/4\/2025. A discussion regarding a fee schedule\u00a0for public records requests. The conversation covers the\u00a0renewal of fees for fiscal year 2026, highlighting that\u00a0copying and scanning prices remain unchanged. Key points include\u00a0clarification on flash drive costs\u00a0for document copies,\u00a0email limits\u00a0of 25 megabytes and 10 documents, and the\u00a0discontinuation of Dropbox\u00a0in favor of SharePoint. The transcript also addresses the town&#8217;s efforts to\u00a0encourage businesses to conduct their own research\u00a0rather than relying on town staff and discusses the\u00a0decision to not widely digitize and put all 91A requests online\u00a0due to security concerns, intellectual property issues, and staff time constraints, while still making viewing options available at town hall.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"91A Fees\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b3lsD9jlrLk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town council meeting 8\/4\/2025. A discussion regarding a fee schedule\u00a0for public records requests. The conversation covers the\u00a0renewal of fees for fiscal year 2026, highlighting that\u00a0copying and scanning prices remain unchanged. Key points include\u00a0clarification on flash drive costs\u00a0for document copies,\u00a0email limits\u00a0of 25 megabytes and 10 documents, and the\u00a0discontinuation of Dropbox\u00a0in favor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10928,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10927\/revisions\/10928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}