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John Foust - JDC

 

David Olsen
Commerce and Industry Association, Jefferson Development Corporation
305 South Main Street
Jefferson, WI 53549

March 1, 2000

Dear Mr. Olsen,

Your letter of February 26 contained a floppy disk that was unreadable. I attempted to read it on four different computers, with no success.

I therefore request:

  • Your February 14, 2000, "Executive Update" report to the Jefferson City Council.
  • The minutes of the January 2000 meeting of the Jefferson Development Corporation.
  • The unapproved minutes of the February 15, 2000 JDC meeting.

I would like all these records in electronic form as before. I would like these records sent as attachments to the e-mail address ‘jfoust@threedee.com' as explained in my previous letter. This method will avoid any future problems with unreadable disks. I would like to receive them in this fashion before the end of day, March 2.

Your letter claims that my request for the December and January minutes of the JDC has been fulfilled by a disk you gave me on January 21. That disk contained:

01/21/00 12:20p  5,120 JDC Agenda - January 2000.wps
01/21/00 12:25p 16,896 JDC bylaws - adopted 1-18-00.wps
01/21/00 12:27p 17,920 JDC bylaws - old.wps
01/21/00 12:18p  9,216 JDC minutes - December 1999.wps

which I am sure you can identify as the agenda of the January meeting, the old and new by-laws, and the minutes of the December meeting.

I requested these in an e-mail on January 18, when I wrote "I request electronic copies of the newly proposed by-laws, the agenda of the January 18 meeting, and the approved minutes of the December 21 meeting."

You are correct in that you had delivered the December minutes and my request for this was redundant. You are incorrect in believing you had already delivered the January minutes. However, I see no evidence that I've requested records "three or four times" as you claim in your letter.

Sincerely,

John J. Foust
235 South Main Street
Jefferson, WI 53549