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MEMORANDUM
Date: March 20, 2002
To: City Council r~ . ,,~1'~
From: Eleanor M. Dilkes, City Attorne
Re: Public Record Request
I have received the following public record request from Tom Walsh at the Iowa City
Gazette:
"Any correspondence (written or e-mail) between members of the City
Council and Dinerstein Companies and its affiliates, DJ Hammond &
Associates, and Sterling House LLC (proponents of the Sterling
University Housing Complex) sent or received since February 1, 2002."
If e-mail was sent to Council at Counc~l@iowa-city. org or mail came to the Council at the
City's address, the City Clerk will have copies of that correspondence. If, however, any of
you have communicated with the named companies individually, either by e-mail or in
writing, the City Clerk will not have those documents available. Thus, I need you to
provide me with the same.
Mr. Walsh has requested that any responsive documents be provided to him on or before
Tuesday, March 26. I ask that each of you contact me no later than Monday, March 25,
2002 to indicate whether you do or do not have any correspondence (either written or e-
mail) that is responsive to this request. If you do have any such documents I will need to
obtain copies by that same date. As you know, I am generally not in the office on
Thursdays and Fridays, and if you would like to respond on those days please feel free to
contact either Sarah Holecek or Andy Matthews in my office.
I anticipate that this is the first of any number of requests we will receive for e-mail
communications between the individual members of the City Council and others. I am
currently considering the best way to handle such requests, and am discussing the same
with the Information Technology Services Department. In the meantime, in order to
respond to Mr. Walsh's request in a timely manner, your immediate attention will be
required.
I look forward to hearing from each of you.
cc: Steve Atkins
Dale Helling
Marian Karr
City Attorney staff
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