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Public commenter urges the board to delay change to public records request timing
Summary
Public commenter Chris Sutton urged the board to table a proposed reduction of the public records request response time from four hours to two, questioned the rationale and cited a $395,000 facility consulting study and lack of public access to the resulting data.
Chris Sutton, speaking during call to audience, asked the board to delay action on a proposed change to the district's public records request policy that would reduce the processing window from four hours to two.
"The vote to reduce our public records request time by 0.5 is, in my opinion, a rushed decision," Sutton said, adding that the board should examine alternatives such as different request‑management systems and legal options to charge commercial requesters. He told the board the district engaged a facility consulting firm for $395,000 and that the community had not been given access to that firm's data, asking the board to ask the attorney whether the facility study database is a public record.
Sutton asked the board to table the policy change and to consider releasing the facility study data to the public or clarifying its status under public‑records law. The board did not take action during the public comment segment recorded in the transcript.
