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Resident raises FOIA fee and facilities concerns during MPS public comment

Midland Public Schools Board of Education · January 16, 2024
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Summary

A resident told the board that recent FOIA fees she was charged were excessive and that the district’s online FOIA guidance differed from a new policy requiring circuit court appeals; another commenter urged independent population forecasting and said any bond proposal should be scheduled on a major election.

During the public-comment period at the Jan. 16 Midland Public Schools meeting, Renita Bonadies told the board she had been charged what she considered excessive FOIA fees, that accounting for those fees was inadequate and that she was informed by an interim superintendent the district's online FOIA handbook was no longer valid and that appeals for fees could only…

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