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The Tribune recently filed several public information requests with the City of Magnolia.
The Texas Public Information Act gives the public the right to request access to government information. An officer for public information and the officer's agent may not ask why you want them. All government information is presumed to be available to the public. Certain exceptions may apply to the disclosure of the information.
In a public information request filed on July 27, the Tribune requested copies of all city e-mails from or to City Administrator Ryan Kelley, Councilwoman Patsy Williams and Mayor Jimmy Thornton for a three month period. This request included their city and personal e-mail addresses. The Tribune was given 2,850 pages of e-mails and paid $420 for them. The e-mails are public record and can be requested by anyone. The pages are available for anyone to view at the Tribune offices.
Due to the large number of e-mails obtained, the Tribune will publish a few of them each week in the coming months.
FROM: Nathan Krupke
TO: Ryan Kelley, Beverly Standley
DATE: April 30, 2009
SUBJECT: Audit
“Mr. Kelley and Beverly,
Here is our status. This process is obviously taking longer than I expected or desire. My managing partner is hounding me for the report, so I’m feeling pressure from every side to complete this. The report is proving to be our biggest challenge due to the prior auditor and different nuiances (sic) the prior auditor did that are not normal for ‘city’ reports. We are getting closer each day. I would still like the opportunity to discuss the draft report with both of you and the overall presentation to City Council as the report will show just how fiscally responsible your Council needs to be given the current financial state of the City.”
FROM: John Bramlett
TO: Jimmy Thornton, Ryan Kelley
DATE: July 15, 2009
SUBJECT: Water cut off
“Jimmy
I need to (sic) how we have allowed Magnolia Ridge to have free water over the last seven months. This is not a mistake and I want to know how this was allowed for all these months. They are not being treated like the other citizens in Magnolia. If this was to get out to the citizens they would be revolting. If they have not paid by Friday Morning I expect the meter cut off. I want to see a copy of the check and when deposited Friday the cancelled check and the deposit slip. You know that we are trying very hard to cover the note on the water system and will probally (sic) have to raise rates. Im (sic) not happy about this at all.
Ryan
I would like to have a copy of the cut off list for the last seven months.”
TO: Ryan Kelley
FROM: GB Tech
DATE: July 10, 2009
SUBJECT: Security Services
“Mr. Kelly,
As per your request, James performed the additional security services (out of scope). Please review and confirm the duties were performed to your satisfaction and approve the 5 hours in which it took to complete them.
- Change all user passwords to a random 9 digit numbers per Mr. Kelley’s request
- Change system so that no user is allowed to change their password.
- Give Mr. Kelley a copy of the user ID & PW list.
- Change LuAnn’s PW and access her laptop to get the recent opened files for Mr. Kelley
- Grant Mr. Kelley system admin rights to the mail server (Goliath).
Thank you,
Cheryl Carter”
TO: Ryan Kelley
FROM: Beverly Standley
DATE: July 8, 2009
SUBJECT: Mayor
“Please call the Mayor at your earliest convenience. Someone is saying that we are paying salaries out of the water fund. WE ARE. I thought this was acceptable.”
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