Gren, I think Tweefie brings up a good point.  Steve, be sure to follow
up with a hard copy of your e-mail.  I would hate to think that more
smearing of CVCBD employees' names would occur because they never
responded to an e-mail they never received, due to an overactive spam
blocker.  Be the proper community activist and send in multiple formats.

Ah, but these are red herrings.  Who really cares about such
formalities? 

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: catfishfollies@verizon.net
  To: chat@charlesvillage.info, discussion@charlesvillage.info
  Subject: [Discussion] More Public Information Act request
  Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 15:09:09 -0500 (CDT)

  >
  > Ms. Millspaugh:
  > Your question's a good one... but... it's really not the form by
  which Mr.
  > Gewirtz submits Public Information Act requests to a public
  employee (Ms. J.
  > Levine) that's important.
  > What is important is how said public employee (ha-ha, for all those
  hardened
  > cynics out there, she's also the past president and now a board
  member of
  > Maryland Common Cause, the "open government" group) responds so
  that Mr. G and
  > other interested members of the public --- including you, of course
  --- can
  > determine:
  > --- Was the CVCBD employee who resides in Columbia MD (and who,
  according to
  > none other than the City Solicitor, is illegally employed) also
  originally
  > hired by the CVCBD using hiring practices that are not permitted to
  a public
  > agency? In other words, after the CVCBD decided that it couldn't
  possibly find
  > a single, solitary Baltimore City resident who could do the job,
  did it just
  > go ahead and break two laws for the price of one?
  > --- Has the CVCBD now decided that it can just continue, continue,
  and
  > continue to break the law with respect to this illegal employee by
  writing one
  > letter after another to the City Solicitor?
  > --- Is the CVCBD getting questionable legal counsel, and is it time
  for
  > members of the CVCBD board to start squirming?
  >
  >
  > Steve -
  >
  > Do you send these requests in hard copy via certified/return
  receipt mail as
  > well ?
  >
  >
  >
  > -- Stephen J Gewirtz wrote:
  > Dr. Levine:
  >
  > In addition to the Maryland Public Information Act request of July
  6,
  > 2005 which I have reprinted below and for which I have yet to
  receive
  > the courtesy of a reply, I hereby make the following request under
  the
  > Maryland Public Information Act:
  >
  > Kindly provide me with a copy of the advertising published and
  > information on where it was published when CVCBD last filled the
  > position of Director of Field Operations, and kindly inform me of
  what
  > steps were followed to fill the position; in other words, I am
  > requesting to be informed of the steps that were followed to
  advertise
  > the position before Mr. Wes Tolbert was hired. In addition, I
  request
  > to be informed of who were the members of the search committee that
  > interviewed and chose Mr. Tolbert, and I request to be informed of
  how
  > many other applicants there were for the position and how many
  other
  > persons were interviewed for the position, and I request to be
  informed
  > of how many applicants and how many persons interviewed were
  residents
  > of Baltimore City.
  >
  > Also, kindly provide me with copies of the correspondence
  (including
  > letters by counsel) between CVCBD and the Board of Estimates and
  between
  > CVCBD and members of the Board of Estimates in response to the
  > requirement adopted by the Board of Estimates when it approved the
  CVCBD
  > budget on May 25, 2005 that CVCBD report within 3 months on the
  steps it
  > has taken to come into compliance with the requirement in its
  enabling
  > ordinance that all of its employees be Baltimore City residents.
  >
  > Sincerely,
  > Stephen J Gewirtz,
  > resident and owner of, and registered voter at 3007 Guilford Ave.,
  > Baltimore MD 21218,
  > and a CVCBD surtax payer since the inception of CVCBD.
  >
  >
  >
  >
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