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HomeMy Public PortalAboutBrannon Transcript 7/14/1611 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA CASE NO. 2014 -CA -006112 -AG CITIZENS AWARENESS FOUNDATION, INC., Plaintiff, v. THE TOWN OF GULF STREAM; BRANNON & GILLESPIE, LLC, Defendants. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - x DEPOSITION OF DANNY BRANNON TAKEN ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF Thursday, July 14, 2016 Town Hall 100 Sea Road Gulf Stream, Florida 10:05 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. Reported by Felecia Curreri, RPR Notary Public, State of Florida Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 1 APPEARANCES ON BEHALF OF THE PLAINTIFF 2 The O'Boyle Law Firm, P.C. 1286 West Newport Center Drive 3 Deerfield Beach, Florida 33442 BY: JONATHAN O'BOYLE, ESQUIRE 4 Tel: (954)570-3501 Email: joboyle@oboylelawfirm.com 5 6 7 8 APPEARANCES ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENDANTS 9 Jones Foster Johnston & Stubbs, P.A. 10 505 South Flagler Drive Suite 1100 11 West Palm Beach, Florida 33401 BY: JOANNE M. O'CONNOR, ESQUIRE 12 Tel: 561-659-3000 Email: joconnor@jonesfoster.com 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 2 3 1 I N D E X 2 TESTIMONY OF DANNY BRANNON Page 3 Direct Examination by Mr. O'Boyle 4 4 5 6 (No Exhibits Marked) 7 8 9 S T I P U L A T I O N S 10 It is hereby stipulated and agreed by and 11 between counsel present for the respective parties, and the deponent, that the reading and signing of 12 the deposition are hereby reserved. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 I 1 THE COURT REPORTER: Do you swear or 2 affirm that the testimony you are about to 3 give will be the truth, the whole truth, and 4 nothing but the truth? 5 THE WITNESS: Yes. 6 Thereupon -- 7 DANNY BRANNON 8 was called as a witness by the Plaintiff and, 9 having been first duly sworn, testified as follows: 10 DIRECT EXAMINATION 11 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 12 Q. Mr. Brannon, good morning. My name is Jon 13 O'Boyle. This is a deposition in a case of 14 Citizens Awareness Foundation versus Town of Gulf 15 Stream and Brannon & Gillespie. 16 Have you ever been deposed before? 17 A. Yes. 18 Q. Okay. So I'll just run down a couple of 19 things and if I don't say anything that's clear, 20 you can ask me for clarification. If you need to 21 take a break at any time, just let me know. I 22 don't expect us to be here very long, so I'll just 23 let you keep that in mind. 24 Let's see here. For the record, since 25 this is being transcribed, answers like uh-huh or, Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 E 1 you know, those sort of colloquial answers, that we 2 need something more clear for the record. 3 Okay. So let's just get right into it. 4 Tell me what you know about this case and 5 I can let you look at the pleadings if you want. 6 A. This case is pursuant to a request for 7 public records. 8 Q. Okay. And do you know if this -- let me 9 ask this. Do you know why you are involved in this 10 case? 11 A. We are a contract for the Town. 12 Q. Okay. 13 A. And as such, particularly have current 14 public records. 15 Q. And as a contractor, can you please, for 16 the record, just tell the record, I guess, what the 17 contract is for? It doesn't make sense when we 18 bring up the records request. 19 A. We coordinate activities relative to the 20 undergrounding of the overhead utilities facilities 21 in the Town. 22 Q. Okay. Is that referred to as the 23 underground utility project? 24 A. Correct. 25 Q. Okay. And I've heard in Town meetings. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 A 1 All right. 2 Is that the only thing that Brannon & 3 Gillespie does for the Town? 4 A. We have done other projects for the Town. 5 Q. Okay. And just for the record, you're 6 Mr. Danny Brannon and I apologize if I'm using your 7 informal first name. I don't know you by any other 8 name. And your relationship? 9 A. Danny Brannon, managing member of Brannon 10 & Gillespie, LLC, 631 U.S. Highway 1, Suite 301, 11 North Palm Beach, Florida. 12 Q. And you are the Town's engineer? 13 A. We are the -- that coordinates the 14 project. We have professional engineers that do 15 various tasks. We have utility company engineers 16 that also work with us. 17 Q. Okay. So Brannon & Gillespie, do they 18 hold an appointed position or is it strictly by 19 contract? 20 A. Contract. 21 Q. Okay. Now, let me ask, can you tell me a 22 little bit about Brannon & Gillespie? I'm looking 23 for how big it is, the number of employees, the 24 staff, generally what the resources are. 25 A. We have a staff of one. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 7 1 Q. Okay. 2 A. We have two owners and a staff of one and 3 I'm the staff of one. 4 Q. Are you also an owner? 5 A. Yes. 6 Q. Okay. So are there three people? 7 A. No, two owners and I'm one of the owners 8 and I am also the only participating working person 9 in the company. 10 Q. Okay. And so is Brannon and Gillespie a 11 general contractor that subcontracts or are they a 12 manager of subcontractors? 13 A. We have some subcontractors on occasion 14 for specialty things, so we're both producers and 15 coordinators depending on what we have to do. 16 Q. Okay. So the underground electric 17 project, which has been referred to in Town 18 meetings and various Town documents, you are not 19 the only person out there performing that work, 20 there are other people and where I'm going with 21 this is, who are these other people? What is your 22 relationship to workers, because where I'm 23 ultimately going here is, I'm trying to figure out 24 where the public records come from. 25 A. We work with Florida Power and Light. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 15 1 my part. I can say that we do not keep 2 originals of any of the contracts or what the 3 records that they would need ongoing. As to 4 whether they keep those or what they do with 5 them, I couldn't say. I'm not the keeper of 6 their file. 7 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 8 Q. Sure. Sure. 9 Okay. But you send them copies of 10 important documents regarding this project? 11 A. I send them the originals. 12 Q. Okay. So you might not know whether they 13 have them or not, but you at some point send them a 14 majority of the responsive documents? 15 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 16 THE WITNESS: I send them everything that 17 is addressed to the Town. I don't know what 18 the majority of -- 19 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 20 Q. Sure, sure. I'm talking about the 21 underground electric projects, so I don't want to 22 be confusing at all, but when I say the documents, 23 you made statements earlier that you send the -- 24 A. Yes. 25 Q. -- copies or you forward them and I just, Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 you know, wanted to get a sense for what was being 2 forwarded and what wasn't being forwarded. 3 A. In other jurisdictions we are involved in 4 more aspects and there are horrendous number of 5 aspects in those other jurisdictions that we are 6 involved in that we weren't here. So I could not 7 say what their volume of records would be. I can 8 only state that for those that we get, we forward 9 them to the Town with the exception of probably 10 some day-to-day emails with the utilities or the 11 contractors. 12 Q. So let me ask you this. For this project, 13 what type of email program do you use? 14 A. Use the Outlook. 15 Q. Okay. Do you have a folder for the emails 16 related to this underground electric project? 17 A. Yep. 18 Q. Okay. Is it possible or was it possible 19 back then to forward, to download that folder and 20 then just send it to the Town? 21 A. We couldn't do that. We would have to go 22 through and make sure that we were responsive to 23 the specificity of the request and there may be 24 communication in there that shouldn't have been put 25 into that folder, so we have to go through the Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 17 1 folder and look at everything that we are sending. 2 Q. Sure. Now, let me ask this. If you sent 3 the -- if you downloaded the folder and sent it to 4 the Town, couldn't the Town perform that work when 5 they go through the box? 6 A. No. 7 Q. And why not? 8 A. Because they would not the know the 9 context of notes that has the specific information 10 and that it tells you that this is about the 11 undergrounding project or this is about going 12 fishing next week, so we have to look at the notes 13 and see what these notes were about. 14 Q. Okay. Are there some that are on their 15 face referred to the underground electric project? 16 A. Sure. 17 Q. Okay. And I'm asking, because this is a 18 particular folder that you have just for this 19 project? 20 A. No. 21 Q. No, it isn't? 22 A. I have a folder for the Town. 23 Q. Okay. 24 A. All projects done for the Town. 25 Q. And I don't think I've asked you point Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 E 1 blank, but what is the complete lists of projects 2 that were occurring in 2014 and prior, not in the 3 last two years. those have not 19 4 A. I can't tell you off the top of my head. 5 I have to go look. 6 Q. So they were not major projects? 7 A. Most of them were minor projects. 8 Q. Okay. Do you know generally what type of 9 work was being done or were you managing? 10 A. Example would be the ADA ramps in the 11 back. We did the design for those. 12 Q. Okay. 13 A. That was one project. I would have to go 14 through the folder and -- 15 Q. Okay. But nothing as large as the 16 underground electric project? 17 A. No. 18 Q. And the hard files, could those have not 19 just been delivered to the Town for them to sort 20 through? 21 A. No. Like the request was for not just the 22 documents that are easy to find, what the request 23 was for, the documents. 24 Q. Sure. And then I'm trying to figure out 25 if there were piles of okay, here is a box full of Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 19 1 things, I'm Mr. Brannon, I don't have, you know, 2 it's not worth my time, let me give it to the Town 3 and let them sort it out, I am just holding their 4 records. 5 A. Typically not. We may throw things in 6 there that are from, what I'll call, design 7 documents that really don't have anything to do 8 with the Town's project. But, for instance, if you 9 were doing something on ADA and you downloaded from 10 accessibility code from the state building codes 11 and you were looking at stuff and you threw this 12 copy of this manual in the box, because you were 13 just going through to check it and make sure your 14 design were compliant with the codes, but the code 15 really didn't have anything to do with the project. 16 Q. Right. 17 A. It's like throwing my national -- or like 18 an engineering code book in the box. It's really 19 not anything to do with the project, it's something 20 we kept together with that because we had 21 referenced it in what we were doing. 22 Q. Sure. And to sort of speed this process 23 up, I'm looking for what you could have given to 24 the Town and what you feel that you had to sort 25 through yourself. So in the form of a question; Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 20 1 what documents do you feel like or groups of 2 documents that you could have just given to the 3 Town for them to sort through to find which 4 documents were responsive? 5 A. None. 6 Q. None at all? 7 A. No. 8 I've had situations where people have had 9 piles of documents and I've sat in meetings and 10 have them go through these piles of documents and 11 90 percent of them had nothing to do with, but they 12 had no idea, so they were assuming everything had 13 something to do with what we were dealing with and 14 that is unacceptable, and the request asked for 15 certain documents to be delivered and we have to go 16 through and make sure we're complying with that 17 request and not the extraneous information and 18 unrelated information. 19 Q. Would it be easier to just include some of 20 the extraneous information? 21 A. No. 22 Q. How so? 23 A. Because by the time it gets misunderstood 24 and misused in trying to get it cleared up is an 25 intense, trying situation. So we need to comply Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 21 1 with the request as presented. 2 Q. Okay. So if there was just a clerical 3 error and a couple of emails relating to something, 4 I don't know, different, another one of the Town's 5 projects were produced, you're saying that that 6 would be problematic, that would be more work than 7 going through and being absolutely precise in 8 calling every single extraneous document? 9 A. We want to comply with the request. We 10 are of the opinion that the documents that we 11 provide are the documents that were compliant with 12 the request. Any document that is not compliant 13 with the request that gets stuck in the delivery is 14 misinformation, misleading. We don't want to do 15 that. 16 Q. Okay. And are you the person that would 17 make the call what is responsive and not 18 responsive? 19 A. Right. 20 Q. You would be? 21 A. Yes. 22 Q. Okay. Do you know who Rita Tailor is? 23 A. Town clerk. 24 Q. Okay. Would she be giving input at all to 25 what is responsive and what is not responsive? Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 22 1 A. No. 2 Q. Okay. So I just want to understand that 3 when this request comes in, and it related to 4 records that you had in your possession, as I 5 understand -- 6 A. (Nods head). 7 Q. Is that a yes? 8 A. Right. Correct. 9 Q. And the Town told you in so many words or 10 you understood that the Town told you, here is the 11 request, it's now Mr. Brannon, it's your 12 responsibility to figure out what is responsive and 13 what's not responsive? 14 A. Correct. 15 Q. Okay. And there was no conversation about 16 handing over the documents in bulk and letting the 17 Town go through the documents? 18 A. I couldn't do that. 19 Q. But the Town did already have some of the 20 documents that were responsive? 21 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 22 THE WITNESS: I can't -- I can't tell you 23 what the Town had or didn't have. 24 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 25 Q. Sure. Sure. Sure. But you sent them -- Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 23 1 A. Right. 2 Q. -- at some point? 3 A. Right. 4 Q. Okay. So if you were on vacation, then 5 this request would be very difficult to fulfill, it 6 would be impossible; is that true? 7 A. I don't know. I haven't taken a vacation 8 in a number of years. When you are a one-man shop, 9 there's nobody to hand things off to, so you don't 10 go on vacation very much. 11 Q. Okay. Did the Town at all offer to send 12 any staffers over to help you sort through the 13 documents? Was there any plans or contingency? 14 A. No. 15 Q. So the entirety of the conversation was 16 here is the request, and I'm paraphrasing, but here 17 is the request, you have to respond to it and only 18 you have to respond to it, can you give us an 19 estimate? 20 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 21 THE WITNESS: The request was, here is the 22 request, please provide an estimate. 23 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 24 Q. Okay. So it was implied that you would be 25 the one responding to the request or did somebody Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 24 1 tell you you need to respond to this request? 2 A. I have responded to these requests before, 3 so I am aware it's my responsibility. 4 Q. And that's just by a course of conduct, 5 custom, just how you operate, you and the Town? 6 A. No, that's a matter of doing business with 7 a governmental agency. 8 Q. Can you clarify that a little bit? What 9 do you mean by that? 10 A. The statutes indicate that a contractor 11 doing business with a governmental agency should 12 consider himself to be an arm of the agency and 13 responsive to all public records requests. 14 Q. Okay. So you understand then that you -- 15 I'm sorry, that Brannon & Gillespie has to 16 independently respond to this request without the 17 help of the Town? 18 A. We are responding on our behalf to the 19 request. We are responsible for the response. 20 Q. Okay. 21 A. The Town is not capable of determining 22 what the context was for all the documents. 23 Q. When you say the context, can you tell me 24 a little bit more about that? Maybe an example if 25 you can think of one where the Town would not know Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 25 1 that this document is responsive and that it would 2 require your assistance? 3 A. John Lear Communications relative to an 4 acceptance of a field change. 5 Q. Because the person involved, John Lear, is 6 involved in the underground electric and that would 7 be on the micro level that only you would know 8 about and nobody from the Town? 9 A. Right. Could be Hollywood, could be 10 Pompano, could be Gulf Stream, could be Palm Beach, 11 could be any number of projects. 12 Q. Okay. Because you -- let me back up here. 13 Do you perform engineering services for other 14 jurisdictions? 15 A. We perform these same kind of services 16 we're doing here in other municipalities. 17 Q. And when I said engineering, am I 18 misstating something, am I confused, do you not do 19 engineering or is it something more specific? 20 A. We do engineering and project management 21 type services for coordination of activities 22 relative to undergrounding projects. 23 Q. Okay. When you say relative to 24 underground projects, is that the specialty of the 25 firm? Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 26 1 A. That's our predominant activity. 2 Q. So you're working with, I guess, the same 3 and I'll call them subcontractors or associates, 4 but you are working with the same affiliates from 5 project to project? And I'm sorry, that was a 6 question, so just for the record. 7 A. Typically, several projects, FPL has one 8 contact statewide. Comcast has Palm Beach County, 9 Martin County, St. Lucie County and then they have 10 others in Broward. ATT has different contacts, but 11 we would typically be working with these utilities 12 in multiple projects. 13 Q. So when you have a contact or 14 subcontractor or an affiliate in 2014, you had 15 contacts that were working on multiple projects for 16 you that did not involve the Town of Gulf Stream? 17 A. I will have to go through that particular 18 time frame to see exactly who was, what projects we 19 were working on in that time frame. 20 Q. Okay. So I guess what I'm saying, it's 21 possible that you had John Lear that was -- 22 A. Right. 23 Q. -- working on this project and that 24 project and I guess my question would be, why 25 would, if you have a folder in Outlook, wouldn't Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 27 1 that folder have everything related to the Town of 2 Gulf Stream? 3 A. It may have other emails that were swept 4 into that folder inadvertently. 5 Q. Okay. Just as a clerical -- 6 A. Right. 7 Q. -- mishap perhaps? 8 Okay. We're all talking about the same 9 thing, that sometimes things get filed mistakenly? 10 A. Right. 11 Q. Okay. Now, I see here that there are 12 approximately 4,000 electronic project files and 13 some 3,500 emails. Do you remember ever saying 14 that that was responsive, that's the amount of 15 responsive documents? 16 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 17 Can you state for the record what you are 18 looking at when you say I see here? 19 MR. O'BOYLE: Oh, sure. This is the 20 answers to interrogatories of July 25th. 21 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 22 Q. I'll just show you here. I see about -- 23 A. Yes, generally sounds correct as I 24 recollect it. 25 Q. Actually, if you don't mind, well, I can Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 ask you a 2 So were there any hard files I guess that 3 needed -- because I'm seeing electronic files and 4 we were talking about hard files and is everything 5 that's in a hard file also in an electronic file? 6 A. No. 7 Q. Okay. Would there be hard files that 8 would be responsive? 9 A. I'm sure there would. 10 Q. Okay. Now, do you know and this is, of 11 course, in February 2014 time frame, but do you 12 know who was working in the Town, who was 13 responding, who was dealing with public records 14 requests? 15 A. Today? 16 Q. No, no, back in 2014. 17 A. No. 18 Q. Okay. And if I said Town clerk, 19 Ms. Tailor, do you know if she was working on any 20 requests -- 21 A. I don't know. 22 Q. -- at the time? 23 Okay. So there was nobody -- a public 24 records person from the Town that would contact you 25 and say I'm responsible for public records? Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 29 1 A. I don't know how the responsibilities here 2 are delegated. I got the email on this request 3 from one of the administrative people. I do not 4 know what the structure of responsibility was 5 within the Town. Typically, you get contacted by 6 people, you don't know if that's their 7 responsibility or something that's been handed to 8 them or somebody else is really in that position. 9 So I do not have a chart with responsibilities and 10 job descriptions. 11 Q. Okay. And let me ask this. Your hourly 12 rate in 2014, can you tell me what that was, with 13 regard to the Town of Gulf Stream? 14 A. I believe it was 185. I would have to 15 verify that, but I seem to recall that it was 185. 16 Q. Okay. Around that area. All right. 17 In your contracts with the Town, when I 18 say contracts, let me ask, are there -- are all 19 your contracts with the Town written or are there 20 unwritten modifications, like oral modifications? 21 A. They are written. 22 Q. Okay. So you don't do anything that's on 23 an oral contract basis? 24 A. No. 25 Q. In your contracts, do you contemplate Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 30 1 public records responses? When I say public 2 records responses, your time for responding to 3 public records. No. State contracts? 4 A. No. 5 Q. Okay. Do you have any state contracts? 6 A. No. State contracts? 7 Q. Yes, contracts with a state agency -- 8 A. No. 9 Q. -- or a -- okay. 10 So you've never run into the law which for 11 the state level which says there must be a public 12 records clause in the contract? 13 A. No. 14 Q. Okay. And you've never had any government 15 agency in Florida on any level talk to you about a 16 public records or put any sort of public records 17 provision in any contracts? 18 A. We have no public record provisions, but 19 we have a compensation clause. We have some 20 contracts that have advisories as to responsibility 21 for public records compliance. 22 Q. Okay. And I'm asking if there was 23 anything that potentially either was discussed, 24 noted in a contract about a duty to store public 25 records, or a duty to provide public records, or in Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 31 1 the event that you might have to provide public 2 records, would your rate stay the same, would your 3 compensation fluctuate, would it change based upon 4 the nature of the service? 5 A. The understanding of using the lowest rate 6 available to deliver the records, the understanding 7 of having the responsibility to deliver the 8 records, the understanding of where the effort 9 required is extensive, the obligation to provide an 10 estimate of cost is provided in the statutes. 11 We've had some legislative changes that have gone 12 out, I guess, generated custodian function or to 13 enhance it, it appears, that I'm aware of and I've 14 seen copies of, but I note that through this 15 process dealing with attorneys that my 16 understanding of our responsibility is pretty much 17 what they indicate is the statutes call for. 18 Q. When you say the legislative change, is 19 there something -- well, let me ask this. Is there 20 a change in your understanding of what your 21 responsibilities have been or are? You just -- you 22 made me -- the way you said that, you made me think 23 that there might have been an old way of doing 24 things and then there's a new way of doing things. 25 A. As I recall it, there was an establishment Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 32 1 of the custodian of the records. 2 The responsibility that I had not been 3 aware that any such position had been required 4 previously. 5 Q. And so who is the custodian with regard to 6 this request? 7 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 8 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 9 Q. Or who you understand the custodian to be? 10 A. I do not know who was assigned that 11 responsibility. 12 Q. Okay. So nobody from the Town said, and I 13 guess through -- from the day that this request was 14 made I guess until today, that they are from the 15 Town, they are responsible, they need to give you 16 all the help that you can get to make sure that 17 this -- that what can be done by the lowest paid 18 employee, will be done by the lowest paid employee? 19 A. Previously when I received a request from 20 the Town, it comes from the Town and I respond to 21 the Town. The Town cannot perform my 22 responsibilities for going through the records and 23 finding those records. Neither have I requested it 24 or have they suggested such a thing. 25 Q. Okay. So there's no difference in your Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 33 1 mind between when a request comes to you personally 2 or you personally to Brannon & Gillespie versus 3 when the request comes from the public agency, I'm 4 not just talking about the Town of Gulf Stream, but 5 any government that you work with, you don't 6 distinguish between the two? 7 A. No. 8 Q. Okay. 9 A. We respond. Whoever calls us from the 10 agency. 11 Q. Okay. But if it's directly to you, do you 12 see yourself as the custodian that needs to respond 13 as opposed to if it comes through, let's just say, 14 the city of West Palm Beach, where the city of West 15 Palm Beach says we're responsible, but we need you 16 to help us out? 17 A. For the records that I have, I am 18 responsible for responding. 19 Q. Okay. And that's even if the Town also 20 has records, duplicates? 21 A. Yes. 22 Q. Okay. Now, when you review the records, 23 when you are responding to them, what do you 24 generally review for? When you say you are looking 25 at the records, what are you looking for? Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 34 1 A. Compliance with the requirements. 2 Q. Of the Public Records Act? 3 A. Compliance with the specifications in the 4 request. 5 Q. Okay. 6 A. And we are acting in compliance with the 7 statutes to fulfill the request. But when I'm 8 looking through the records, I'm looking for, does 9 this record fit the request that's been made or is 10 it not. 11 Q. Okay. So whether you think it's -- 12 whether the record is responsive to the request -- 13 A. Right. 14 Q. Okay. Do you make any notes as to if 15 there's something, if there's something that should 16 be redacted? Are you making any notes and saying 17 this might be exempt, this might be protected, I 18 shouldn't release this, like if you see a record 19 with a Social Security number on it, do you 20 generally make any notes that, hey, public agency, 21 there's a Social Security number on this one, you 22 need to take a look at it? 23 A. We've not had that situation arise to 24 date. 25 Q. Okay. And I was talking more generally if Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 35 1 you saw -- if you are also looking at -- when you 2 are looking at these records if you are also 3 perhaps making a note or two that there might be 4 something that the Town or the government might 5 want to follow-up with a yellow flag, a red flag? 6 A. All requests that we've had in the past 7 we've not been in situations where we would run S into things like you are suggesting. 9 Q. Okay. And that's just the nature of the 10 business that you are in? 11 A. Right. 12 Q. Okay. So when you said that you were the 13 only person at the company, is Mr. Gillespie just 14 an owner? 15 A. Right. 16 Q. Okay. So he just is, I guess, an 17 investor, he doesn't perform any of the work? 18 A. He retired. 19 Q. Okay. And did he retire before the 20 underground electric project with the Town of Gulf 21 Stream? 22 A. He retired January 2014, but he's never 23 worked on this project at all. 24 Q. Okay. So he would not have any records in 25 his -- Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 36 1 A. No. 2 Q. -- emails or anything that -- that you 3 wouldn't already have? 4 A. He wouldn't have any records on my 5 projects. 6 Q. Okay. So when you said the staff of one, 7 do you use any temporary employees, any contracting 8 services for any clerical work whatsoever? 9 A. No. 10 Q. So when somebody picks up the phone and 11 they call Brannon & Gillespie, they are speaking to 12 Mr. Danny Brannon? 13 A. Right. 14 Q. And when there's a -- so even if there's a 15 big project that comes through, you do not pull in 16 temporary help or contract help at all? 17 A. No. 18 Q. That's pretty admirable. 19 A. Too many years at the power company. 20 Q. What do you mean by that? 21 A. Our accounting systems and automation, so 22 we can do everything ourselves faster than we can 23 tell somebody else what to do. 24 Q. Right. Okay. 25 Now, when you performed the estimate, you Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 37 1 gave an estimate in this for this public records 2 request; is that correct? 3 A. Yes. 4 Q. Okay. And when you provided the estimate, 5 can you tell me a little bit about how you came 6 to -- well, can you tell me what your estimate was 7 just roughly and if you don't remember, just how 8 you came to it? 9 A. We took a rough count of the emails in the 10 Gulf Stream folder and looked at the volume of 11 paperwork in the box and made an estimate 12 particularly on how long it would take to take a 13 look at this many documents and figure out if they 14 were in or out of the request. 15 Q. Now, when you just said the word we, who 16 is we? 17 A. Me, myself and I. 18 Q. Okay. 19 A. Brannon & Gillespie. 20 Q. Sure. Sure. Sure. Okay. And let me ask 21 this. With so many or with a fair amount of 22 documents, was there any contemplation of perhaps 23 getting a temporary person to help respond? 24 A. No. 25 MS. O'CONNOR: Object; asked and answered. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 THE WITNESS: That would not have the 2 ability to do this. 3 They wouldn't have the knowledge. 4 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 5 Q. To identify every record? 6 A. Right. 7 Q. Is that correct? 8 A. To evaluate every record. 9 Q. Okay. What do you know or, I'm sorry, do 10 you know whether or not the Town has asserted any 11 affirmative defenses in this action? 12 A. I have -- I don't know what the Town is 13 doing. Couldn't speak for the Town. 14 Q. Okay. I'm just going to identify this and 15 this is the Town's affirmative defenses that were 16 filed not too long ago and I'm just going to ask, 17 have you ever seen this? 18 MR. O'BOYLE: And I'll show you as well, 19 Joanne. 20 THE WITNESS: I've not read this. I don't 21 know if -- it appears not to be something 22 that's addressing me. I couldn't say. Have I 23 seen it? I've gotten some documents that were 24 recently sent, but I don't know if this was 25 one of them or not. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 39 1 BY MR. O'BOYLE; 2 Q. Okay. Well, I mean, if you've seen it, 3 you have, if you haven't, you haven't. I just 4 wondered if you had. Okay. That's fine. 5 So just a little bit of context. These 6 are affirmative defenses that were asserted by the 7 Town which claim that the plaintiff in this case is 8 not the person who should be suing, they have no 9 authority to sue and that this request was made in 10 bad faith. 11 Have you ever heard anybody at the Town 12 make those allegations before? 13 A. No. 14 Q. Do you know who the plaintiff is in this 15 case? Who's doing the suing? 16 A. It's the Awareness Group. 17 Q. Okay. And what have you heard about them? 18 A. That they are a nonprofit group. Don't 19 really know anything about them. 20 Q. Was there anything that struck you as odd 21 with the request that we -- I'm pointing to here. 22 A. The records request? 23 Q. Yes, the original records request, yes. 24 MS. O'CONNOR: I'm going to put an 25 objection. I don't think we've established Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 that he ever saw that at the time the request 2 was made. 3 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 4 Q. Okay. Then the records request of the 5 Town? 6 A. The records request of the Town made was a 7 records request. 8 Q. So there was nothing. I mean, let me back 9 up. So you have no opinion either way, it's just a 10 records request? 11 A. Right. 12 Q. Okay. 13 A. The public request records, some are very 14 narrow scope targeted and some are very broad and 15 we get the records request and it is what it is. 16 Q. Okay. Let me maybe ask in a different 17 way. There is nothing, I guess, mean-spirited or 18 malicious that comes across in the request as you 19 understand it, just a request for underground 20 electric records? 21 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 22 THE WITNESS: It's just a records request. 23 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 24 Q. I'm with you. 25 Now, when we talked about responding a Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 41 1 little while ago and you said some records are thin 2 and some are not so thin. Did you ever indicate to 3 the Town or telling anybody from the Town to convey 4 a message and that message would be can the 5 requestor -- is there something that the requestor 6 is looking for, can they narrow their scope of 7 their request, is there anything we can do to make 8 this request a little bit more streamlined? 9 A. I respond to the request that I receive. 10 I don't try to get involved with the origin of the 11 request. 12 Q. Okay. So you're sort of a degree 13 separated? 14 A. Right. 15 Q. Okay. Now, when you get requests to 16 Brannon & Gillespie personally and you see that 17 somebody might be all over the place, when I say 18 all over the place, they are trying to look to put 19 into words something that they are looking for, but 20 they are just not -- it's just not appearing to you 21 that they are even successful. Do you ever pick up 22 the phone and call them and say what exactly are 23 you looking for here, can I help you out? 24 A. We almost always give the requests through 25 the government agency. So we typically do not deal Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 42 1 with direct requests, we just don't get them. 2 Q. Okay. And when you deal with the 3 government, and I'm talking now about broader than 4 Gulf Stream, but have you ever had a circumstance 5 where either yourself, Brannon & Gillespie, or the 6 government maybe talked about if there's any way 7 they could maybe ask the requestor to narrow the 8 request if need be? 9 A. Not that I can recall. 10 Q. Okay. So from your recollection, it's 11 very mechanical? 12 A. Right. 13 Q. Request comes in, you respond to it? 14 A. (Nods head). 15 Q. You are nodding your head? 16 A. Correct. 17 Q. Correct. Fair enough. 18 Okay. Has your rate at all increased 19 since 2014? 20 A. Yes. 21 Q. What is the current rate? 22 A. $210 an hour. 23 Q. Okay. So if the requestor were to pay, I 24 think it was, 185, 195, would they today, would 25 they be able to get the records requested or would Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 43 1 they have to pay $210 an hour? 2 A. Well, I would have to probably research 3 that. I wouldn't want to respond without looking 4 into it. 5 Q. Okay. And when you look into it, what 6 would you look into? Would it be talking with the 7 Town? 8 A. I would probably review the statutes, 9 maybe talk to the attorneys. 10 Q. Okay. And the 185, 195 or the 210 today, 11 210 an hour, that is your contractual rate -- let 12 me back up. 13 Are you billed on an hourly basis? 14 A. Right. 15 Q. Do you have any limit to how many hours 16 you are supposed to hit before you have to ask for 17 permission to bill more? Is the contract teared in 18 any way or is it just as simple as Mr. Brannon 19 works one hour, he gets paid this? 20 A. Relative to where? 21 Q. Oh, the Town of Gulf Stream and 22 underground electric project. 23 A. We have a rate and a cap on the billing. 24 Q. Okay. And can you tell me about the cap 25 -- and well, I'll ask later just to, you know, Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 1 where I'm going. I'm going to ask about the cap 2 and then how that would relate to a public records 3 request. So can you tell me a little bit about the 4 cap, how the billing works? 5 A. The cap on this project is a percent of 6 project cost. The public records activity is not 7 part of the project. 8 Q. So would that be -- so the public records 9 hourly rate, that would be separate from the 10 contract, the underground electric? 11 A. Probably. 12 Q. Okay. So you couldn't -- and here is what 13 I'm asking, this hourly rate for responding to 14 public records, that would not count towards the 15 cap or it would count towards the cap? 16 A. It's not within the scope of the contract. 17 Q. Okay. So the 195, or 85, I'm just going 18 to say your rate, so what is -- how do you arrive 19 at your rate then for responding to this request 20 when you made that estimate? 21 A. That's the rate that we charge for our 22 hourly services. 23 Q. Okay. So it's the rate of your contract, 24 and correct me if I'm wrong, please, it's the rate 25 of your contract for the underground electric, you Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 45 1 are just going to use that rate to do the 2 underground electric work to respond to public 3 records. But if you respond to public records, 4 it's not going to count towards a cap for the 5 underground electric contract itself? 6 A. The public records request would not 7 typically be part of the contract, it would be an 8 additional service at our current rate. 9 Q. Okay. 10 A. As to having provided an estimate, then 11 it's probable that we would honor the estimate, 12 even at this late date. 13 Q. Okay. And that reflects the -- whatever 14 the estimate is, either back then or today, it will 15 reflect a negotiated rate for the Town to complete 16 the particular project to which it relates the 17 underground electric? 18 A. Right. 19 Q. Okay. 20 A. Well -- 21 Q. I'm sorry. 22 A. I need to be clear on whether you are 23 talking about the project or you are talking about 24 the public records request. 25 Q. Sure. Okay. So I'm talking about the Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 records request. And let me just ask it a 2 different way, which is, so there's no different 3 fees that you would charge for responding to this 4 request that are different from your contract for 5 the underground electric, your hourly rate? And 6 let me give you an example. Maybe this is helpful, 7 like, I'm responding to a public records request, 8 150 an hour versus 210 an hour, because it doesn't 9 represent the engineering work, my training 10 essentially. That's what I'm sort of looking to 11 explore. So I guess the question is, your rate to 12 respond to public records requests tracts your rate 13 for the project that you are doing for that 14 municipality for which the public records request 15 relates to? 16 A. We have an hourly rate for our time. Some 17 things are easier, some things are more difficult. 18 Our knowledge is a major component of our time 19 value. 20 Q. And then of course this is a contract that 21 does not reflect at cost, this is the rate of one, 22 let's just say today, 210 an hour, yesteryear it 23 was 185, 195, that's built in for profit margins, 24 for overhead, for regular business expenses; is 25 that correct? Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 47 1 A. Right. 2 Q. So that's not an at cost expense, a salary 3 expense? 4 A. We have no salaries. 5 Q. Okay. All right. So tell me a little bit 6 I guess on how Brannon & Gillespie, I guess, gets 7 paid from the Town of Gulf Stream and how it pays 8 out its staff, which would be yourself? 9 A. The owners receive any profits that the 10 company generates. 11 Q. So everything goes into -- I want to say 12 everything, all the -- regardless of whether it's 13 public records or whether it's underground 14 electric, engineering, coordinating management 15 work, that goes into one, I'll call it pot, and 16 then the owners decide whether they are going to 17 draw from that pot or reinvest in the business or 18 do whatever they want with it? 19 A. Right. 20 Q. Okay. So nobody, and this is really what 21 I'm getting at, so neither you nor your partner 22 have agreed upon salaries? 23 A. Right. 24 Q. That you would take? 25 A. Right. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 Q. How many requests have you received from 2 the Town of Gulf Stream, regarding this -- well, 3 let me just ask you this. How many requests have 4 you received from the Town of Gulf Stream regarding 5 this -- well, I'll just ask in general since maybe 6 2013 or so? 7 A. I don't know. I recall this one. I S believe we recently received another one for a 9 specific document, but I would have to look that 10 up. I'm not sure. 11 Q. I guess when I say generally, I don't want 12 you to necessarily guess, I want you to estimate, 13 and I'm talking since 2013, a hundred requests, 500 14 requests? 15 A. No, very few. 16 Q. Okay. To your knowledge, does the Town 17 have a town engineer position that's an official 18 position? 19 A. Not to my knowledge. 20 Q. Okay. So then are you authorized to make 21 decisions for the Town on the micro level to get 22 this underground electric project done? I mean, 23 you can either say generally, but specifically I'm 24 looking for 2014 and before. 25 A. The decisions have a broad range. If you Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 1 are talking about spending decisions, those go 2 through the Town. In coordinating activity of 3 utilities, they are usually facilitations as 4 opposed to decisions, things that they would do, 5 decisions of when a meeting will be held, to talk 6 about something. So when you say do I make 7 decisions, it's difficult to respond to. 8 Q. Sure. Sure. And I guess maybe let me 9 take this from a different angle which is, the Town 10 has instructed you with regard to this underground 11 electric to do what, in a very general sense? I 12 don't want to put words in your mouth, but I'm 13 going to start you off, install underground 14 electric or facilitate the installation? 15 A. We facilitate the installation, we monitor 16 the construction activities and we review the 17 contractors and the processes and advise the Town 18 as to our opinion as to if they are appropriate or 19 not. 20 Q. So the subcontractors or the affiliates, 21 they'll send Brannon & Gillespie bills and will you 22 either be the first tear of negotiating these bills 23 or do you just kick them right up to the Town? 24 A. On large bills, we will typically review 25 them. They may be sent directly to the Town or Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 50 1 they may be sent to us to be forwarded to the Town. 2 We will review them and make a recommendation to 3 the Town from our perspective of appropriateness. 4 Q. Okay. And for the project itself, do you 5 determine where the -- I guess the course of what 6 gets done first, where it gets done, how it gets 7 done, is that largely left up to you or are those 8 decisions made on the Town level of, I guess, how 9 the course of the -- 10 MS. O'CONNOR: Can we go off the record? 11 (Discussion held off the record) 12 THE WITNESS: The contractors generally 13 will run their job. We don't tell the 14 contractors how to do it. We contract with 15 the contractors to perform certain 16 installation services and we look at their 17 plan and we may make comments about the plan 18 if we see it adversely affects aspects of the 19 Town. But the contractors supervisor their 20 own crews and run their own job, so... 21 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 22 Q. And you will be responsible for 23 determining who needs to -- which contractors need 24 to be selected, which contractors -- which persons 25 need to be doing, well, need to be selected for a Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 51 1 particular job? 2 A. Typically, the contractors are selected 3 through a competitive bidding process per statutes. 4 Q. Sure. And then for this -- 5 A. We facilitate the process. We don't -- we 6 are not in charge of selecting the contractor, we 7 participate in the process with the Town. 8 Q. Okay. Then let me, I guess, get right to 9 the point here. Brannon & Gillespie, you know, to 10 your knowledge, they don't deny that they are in 11 any way responsible for these records that Brannon 12 & Gillespie asserts that they are in fact -- they 13 have to respond to these public records request per 14 statute? 15 A. Right. Right. 16 Q. Okay. Then actually that gets rid of a 17 lot of my questions. 18 When you send the records, when you send 19 things to the Town, do you have your own backup for 20 those or are those backed up separately? 21 MS. O'CONNOR: Objection. 22 THE WITNESS: When I forward records to 23 the Town, do I? 24 BY MR. O'BOYLE: 25 Q. Sure. Do you have some backup? I know Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 52 1 Microsoft Outlook is a pretty good program in 2 storing those records, but what I'm asking for is 3 if you were subject to a computer virus or if your 4 machine -- your computers were wiped out, do you 5 have backups? 6 A. No. 7 Q. Okay. 8 A. Not for Outlook. 9 Q. For any of the underground electric 10 documents, do you have any backups? 11 A. We have backups for CAD -type files. 12 Q. I'm sorry, what type? 13 A. Computer aided design. Auto CAD. So we 14 have backups for certain type files like Excel 15 files or CAD files. 16 Q. Okay. Now, your interaction with the 17 Town, do you interact -- let me ask. What level of 18 interactions do you have with the Town on a regular 19 basis? And when I say regular, do you call in and 20 talk to somebody everyday? 21 A. No. We typically advise the Town when 22 steps or actions occur on the project. We do not 23 interface with the Town other than on those 24 occurrences. If they have a need, they will 25 contact me with a need, we will respond. If we Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 53 1 have something going on, we will notify them. 2 Q. Okay. Is this done mostly through 3 writings or is this phone calls? 4 A. Phone calls or email. Yesterday we 5 provided an email response to the Town that the 6 meeting occurred. 7 Q. Okay. And do you -- well, I guess, are 8 you privy to or do you hear any of the scuttlebutt 9 or rumor or the water cooler talk? 10 A. No. 11 Q. I'm curious why you laugh. I mean, I'm 12 laughing now that you are laughing. 13 A. The less I hear, the better off I am. 14 Q. Fair enough. 15 Okay. So you've never heard anybody from 16 the Town, I guess, complain against -- about the 17 public records, anything to do with public records? 18 You never heard any complaints or any comments 19 related to any public records, I mean, outside of, 20 here is a request, can you please respond? 21 A. Well, recently, particularly I guess for 22 many months now, I'm not here very often, so I 23 don't talk much, I know that they've had ongoing 24 situations, but I don't take note of any details of 25 whatever. I'm not involved in it. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 54 1 Q. Okay. And when you say ongoing 2 situations -- well, let me ask this. You said you 3 haven't been here recently. Were there, and this 4 is, do you recall in February, January 2014 or 5 before perhaps in 2013, any complaints about public 6 records from the Town? When I say complaints, any 7 comments, any -- 8 A. Heard they had a lot of them. I don't 9 recall who would have made such comments. I don't 10 know if that's continuing or not continuing. 11 Obviously this is kind of part of all that and this 12 has been going on since June of '14, so this is 13 certainly continuing. 14 Q. Okay. And when you -- I'm trying to be 15 somewhat specific, but so when you said you heard 16 that the Town has a lot of them, was that -- is 17 that knowledge gained after, let's say, the 18 beginning of June or January, February of 2014? 19 A. I don't -- I don't recall. 20 Q. I didn't know if you heard this recently 21 or if it was more in the distant past. 22 A. It was in the distant past. Recently I 23 have had no communication, conversation, 24 involvement in the status of how it's going. 25 Q. And when you said ongoing situation, I'm Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 55 1 just curious, what does that -- can you tell me a 2 little bit more about what you've heard about the 3 Town's ongoing situation with public records? 4 A. No. Well, my involvement in ongoing 5 situation is sitting in front of us. And from my 6 perspective, this is my ongoing situation. 7 Q. Okay. But the Town's ongoing situation? 8 A. I don't know how that's going. 9 Q. What do you generally understand that 10 ongoing situation to be? 11 A. From my perspective it is this. 12 Q. Okay. 13 A. Records request. 14 Q. So when you made reference to an ongoing 15 situation, it had nothing to do outside of -- 16 A. No. 17 Q. -- this? 18 A. Don't know what's going on outside of 19 this. 20 Q. Okay. Well, I'll just ask, does Brannon & 21 Gillespie, are you required to undertake any public 22 records training by virtue of any contract with any 23 government agency and I'll ask from 2000 -- well, I 24 guess it's either yes or no. 25 A. No. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 56 1 Q. Okay. No. 2 So has any government agency offered any 3 training? I'm just wondering if you've had anybody 4 from the government, from really anywhere, give any 5 training for responding to public records requests 6 or handling public records requests? 7 A. I recall one communication from Gulf 8 Stream as to the custodian of records legislation 9 that was an advisory issued. Other than that, no. 10 Q. Okay. And that advisory issue, can you 11 tell me a little bit about what the advisory -- 12 A. I believe it was a copy of the legislative 13 act. 14 Q. And I think I know what you are talking 15 about. I'm going to try and ask you if this is 16 what it is, but were you advised that all records 17 requests are now supposed to go through the public 18 agency and not to you directly? 19 A. I was advised that this was a change in 20 the legislation, that I should go through and read 21 it. 22 Q. Okay. I take it, did you read it or maybe 23 just skim through it a little bit? 24 A. I read it. 25 Q. Okay. So let me ask this. Does anybody Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 57 1 have access to your records besides -- and these 2 are the records that Brannon & Gillespie holds, 3 besides yourself and, I guess, Mr. Gillespie? 4 A. Yes. Depending on what you call access, 5 but nobody else uses the records or is involved 6 with the use of the records. 7 Q. Okay. And when I mean access, nowadays, a 8 lot of -- I'm sorry, have you ever heard the term 9 the cloud as it refers to the Internet? 10 A. Yep. 11 Q. Okay. Do you know what that means? 12 A. Yep. 13 Q. Okay. 14 A. I was the information technology account 15 manager for a distribution business at the energy 16 power company. 17 Q. So that's where files are shared, they are 18 stored on an online database and they can be shared 19 through multiple people; is that correct? And this 20 is for the record, too. 21 A. It's an environment that's an access, an 22 offsite environment that's accessible for running 23 applications and storing data and multiple IT 24 functions. 25 Q. Now, are any of these fees, records, and Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 when I say these records, records that are 2 potentially responsive to the request for the 3 underground utility records, are any of those 4 records stored, I guess, on the cloud? Are they 5 shared with the Town? 6 A. No. 7 Q. In an offsite server -- okay. So it's 8 Brannon & Gillespie's own servers, their own 9 hardware, software? They send things to the Town 10 and it's just as simple as that? 11 A. Right. 12 Q. Okay. The potential records that might be 13 responsive -- let me ask this. You have not 14 deleted anything that could potentially be 15 responsive? 16 A. We do not delete any of the files, emails 17 or other. 18 Q. Is there some kind of archiving process 19 where they are stored in some way or another? 20 A. We have multiple tarabites of draft space 21 that they are stored on, so we don't worry about 22 overloading the draft system. 23 Q. Okay. 24 A. The Outlook files would be in a folder 25 that you could call and archive a folder. That's Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 59 1 the Town folder separate from your typical personal 2 email inbox. 3 Q. Okay. So when you say you have onsite 4 tarabite backups, and here is, let me just get 5 right to the heart of it so we can probably move 6 this along a little quicker, and that is, however 7 this lawsuit works out, if the records are to be 8 turned over, I just want to make sure that, you 9 know, where they are being stored or if there's any 10 alternative places of storage just in case 11 something happens to their computers, your 12 computers or whatever, so can you be maybe just 13 tell me a little bit about where things are stored, 14 how things are stored, how they are backed up just 15 in case? 16 A. We have a backup work station that's got 17 four tarabites of hard drive storage in that pulls 18 things off the server and holds them in a separate 19 computer. 20 Q. Okay. And that separate computer would be 21 on site or off? 22 A. It's on site. 23 Q. Okay. And for the Outlook, are those 24 backed up by any off site? 25 A. No. Daughters Reporting, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida 954-755-6401 M 1 Q. Okay. So those are also backed up on 2 site? 3 A. The Outlook is all on site. 4 Q. Okay. 5 A. The Outlook is on site on my machine. 6 Q. Oh, wow. 7 Do you know if the Town of Gulf Stream has 8 any backup? 9 A. I don't know. 10 Q. Okay. Do you know if, I guess, I don't 11 know if you -- have you given the documents to 12 Jones Foster or somebody else, where they might 13 have a backup? I didn't know if you had potential 14 documents and you said okay? 15 A. No. 16 Q. Okay. So if your computers get wiped out, 17 it would be very difficult to respond to this 18 request? 19 A. Yes. 20 Q. Okay. All right. Well, Mr. Brannon, I 21 really don't have anything else for you today. 22 MS. O'CONNOR: I don't have any questions. 23 We'll read. 24 (The deposition concluded at 11:40 a.m.) 25 Daughters Reporting, Inc. 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