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Commission denies fee-waiver for request about ES&S HAVA expenditures
Summary
A public records request seeking an itemized list of expenditures to ES&S from South Dakota HAVA funds was presented; county staff estimated retrieval time and the commission voted to deny a fee-waiver for the request.
A resident requested an itemized list of all expenditures paid to ES&S from February 2018 to present from South Dakota HAVA funds and asked the county to waive the fee for producing the records. County staff told the commission locating the files would likely take one to three hours and noted the county policy waives the first hour and charges $100 per hour thereafter.
Commissioners questioned timing because the office is short-staffed following an election and audit activity. After discussion about workload and precedent, the commission moved to deny the fee-waiver request. The motion to deny was seconded and carried by voice vote; staff will process the request under the county’s public-records fee schedule if the requester wishes to pay required copying and search time costs.
