HomeMy Public PortalAboutPRR 15-1882From: Chris O'Hare [ mailto: chrisoharegulfstream @gmail.com)
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2015 11:40 AM
To: Bill Thrasher
Subject: PUBLIC RECORD REQUEST Chandler shade meeting
Dear Custodian of Records,
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I request you provide for my inspection the public record which is:
The transcript of any attorney /client session of the Town Commission to discuss Joel Chandler vs. Town of
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CLOSED -DOOR SESSION O RI'G INA L
TOWN OF GULFSTREAM
TOWN OF GULFSTREAM
TOWN HALL
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
6:10 P.M. to 6 :35 p.m.
IN ATTENDANCE:
MAYOR JOAN ORTHWEIN
DONNA S. WHITE, Commissioner
W. GARRETT DERING, Commissioner
ROBERT GANGER, Commissioner
THOMAS STANLEY, Commissioner
WILLIAM THRASHER, Town Manager
JOHN C. RANDOLPH, Town Attorney
JULIE ANDOLPHO, Court Reporter
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1 MR. RANDOLPH: I just wanted to announce that
2 this is a closed -door session pursuant to Florida
3 statute.
4 Even though it's a closed -door session as you
5 can see from the presence of the court reporter
6 there's a transcript of this meeting being made,
7 and that transcript becomes public upon settlement
8 of the lawsuit or any appeals connected therewith.
9 I would ask, because this is being
10 transcribed, you speak one at a time so that all
11 your comments can be made part of the record.
12 I would further ask that you keep in mind,
13 because this is a public record afterwards, that
14 you not say anything at this meeting that you would
15 not want to see in the press or have read by
16 someone else after the meeting.
17 It's closed door because I asked your advice
18 with regard to a proposed settlement agreement, and
19 that settlement agreement has been put before you.
20 Basically, it's to pay -- this is the last public
21 records lawsuit pending. All the others have been
22 dismissed.
23 Joel Chandler had his own -- excuse me --
24 question?
25 MR. DERING: Question, I really don't know
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what this is all about. Can you tell us what the
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suit is about?
3
MR. RANDOLPH: Um'hum.
4
MR. DERING: Okay.
5
MR. RANDOLPH: The proposal in this remaining
6
lawsuit is to pay the sum of $2,000 which would be
7
for their attorney fees and costs and to provide
8
the records that were requested to Mr. Chandler,
9
and they say in here to withdraw or strike
10
statements made in our motion and answer which is
11
Mr. Chandler is essentially a puppet of Marty
12
O'Boyle. And it says this was insulting to
13
Mr. Chandler.
14
This was a public records lawsuit that was
15
filed as a result of Mr. Chandler coming in along
16
with Mr.O'Boyle and I believe one other person.
17
MR. THRASHER: Correct.
18
MR. RANDOLPH; I believe there were three
19
people that came in.
20
Mr. Chandler asked for certain public records
21
which Rita left the room and made, and upon her
22
return she presented him a bill for 15 cents per
23
copy and a bill for her labor in the amount of, I
24
think, $3.50, something like, that is set forth in
25
the complaint.
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1 He challenged her there at that time and said
2 you're not entitled to charge me 15 cents a page
3 and you're not entitled to charge for the labor
4 under the statute. She basically, allegedly, said
5 that, well, I prepared the records for you in
6 response to your request, they're here if you want
7 them. He -- then he left.
8 Subsequently he filed a public records request
9 which was filed by William Ring who also represents
10 and represented Mr.O'Boyle and stated that the Town
11 was violating the public records law by charging
12 more than the statutory rate. His claim was that
13 you can't charge 15 cents per page you can only
14 charge cost of duplication for the copies that he
15 received which were 11 by 17. They were oversized
16 copies and the statute states that for oversized
17 copies you can only charge the cost of duplication.
18 He claims cost and duplication was less than 15
19 cents per page.
20 There's an argument to be made in regard to
21 what the statute means there. Some contend the
22 statute means he's charged 15 cents a page for
23 regular sized copies but you can charge more for
24 oversized copies. But that's not the way the
25 statute reads. It says you can only charge actual
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cost of duplication for oversized copies. That's
2
one of the issues in the lawsuit. The other issue
3
in the lawsuit is she shouldn't have charged for
4
her labor costs because it didn't really require
5
extra -- extraordinary costs of her labor time.
6
She felt it did because she felt it was a
7
cumulative kind of thing attached to other public
8
records requests that were made.
9
We did file a response to this and argued in
10
our response that Mr. Chandler -- we did not say in
11
our response that Mr. Chandler was a puppet of
12
Mr. O'Boyle.
13
The response basically said that we feel that
14
he was here with Mr.O'Boyle and Rita felt that this
15
was all part of Mr. O'Boyle's public records
16
request and therefore filed a response saying that
17
and that's why she felt justified in charging a
18
labor charge because she felt that this was a
19
cumulative charge.
20
If we go to -- if we go to court on this it's
21
going to cost you much more than $2,000.
22
Mr. Chandler, by the way, has filed several of
23
these kinds of public records lawsuits throughout
24
the state. His name is well -known in communities
25
throughout the state where he's filed similar
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1 public records requests. Several communities have
2 settled with him on a financial basis, some for
3 less money.
4 What I'm asking today is for me to have the
5 authority to -- if you approve it -- to go ahead
6 and settle for up to the $2,000. What I'd like to
7 do is to have the opportunity to negotiate for a
8 lesser amount and see whether or not that is
9 acceptable.
10 You cannot settle a case in a setting like
11 this. You have to settle a case in a public
12 setting. You do not make motions at this meeting
13 today to settle this case. You can give me
14 direction to negotiate to settle along the terms
15 that are suggested in here.
16 The public records themselves, which is listed
17 at Item 2, have been made, and those public records
18 will be provided to Mr. Chandler.
19 The sum of $2,000 could be paid subject to
20 your giving me direction to do that. I can't tell
21 you how much the -- if we go to court it may cost
22 you $10,000 to settle this case.
23 Another way to handle it would be to just
24 admit the allegations in the complaint.
25 Quite frankly, I think the $2,000 is a little
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bit high for just having filed the complaint
2
particularly in light of the fact that several of
3
these complaints were being filed at the same time
4
and I think this was fairly boilerplate.
5
Mr. Ring has stated he kept his fees low in
6
order to be able to settle this case.
7
I think it's reasonable to get this last
8
public records case off our plate, and I would like
9
to have the opportunity to negotiate up to $2,000
10
to do so.
11
Item 3, I don't know how to withdraw, strike
12
or retract the statements that were made in our
13
motion and answer. They're part of the court
14
record and I can't -- I can't get rid of what's
15
already part of the record. So I don't know
16
whether he's seeking some sort of an apology from
17
us or not. We were just basically setting forth
18
our best affirmative defense to the complaint.
19
I'm happy to answer any questions that you may
20
have.
21
MR. GANGER: I have a couple of questions
22
which are mystifying to me.
23
Mr. Ring is Mr.O'Boyle's attorney and Brian
24
Whitmer worked for Mr.O'Boyle and was also named
25
and he withdrew his suit.
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1 MR. THRASHER: Brian Whitmer is the third
2 person --
3 MR. RANDOLPH: He was the third person there
4 and he did dismiss his lawsuit. But when we did
5 this settlement we had agreed that Mr. Chandler was
6 separate and apart from the O'Boyle lawsuits.
7 MR. GANGER: I remember that.
8 MR. RANDOLPH: And, therefore, that one
9 remained. It's unfortunate that it did. it would
10 have been nice to get rid of all of them at once.
11 Nevertheless, this is hanging on and Mr. Chandler
12 is claiming he has no relationship to Mr.O'BOyle.
13 It is interesting.
14 I've stated the fact that Mr.o'BOyle's lawyer
15 filed the complaint on his behalf. Mr. Chandler
16 contends that he was separate and apart and didn't
17 have anything to do with Mr.o'Bcyle's public
18 records request.
19 MR. STANLEY: Skip, what -- I'll go first --
20 what are the damages to the Town that we -- on
21 these types of cases if you either, you know, you
22 admit the items in the complaint and then there's a
23 judgment, if you will, entered against the Town?
24 MR. RANDOLPH: None other than the fact that
25 we have to pay attorney's fees and costs.
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MR. STANLEY: Basically whatever accrues at
2
that time it's just what is justifiable before the
3
judge we would be responsible to pay with the
4
judgment which ultimately could be less than what
5
you could settle for, maybe.
6
MR. RANDOLPH: Maybe.
7
MR. STANLEY: Maybe.
8
MR. RANDOLPH: He can charge for the cost of
9
having an attorney come in and testify as to
10
attorney's fees.
11
MR. STANLEY: An award of fees and costs in
12
other words?
13
MR. RANDOLPH: Yes.
14
MR. STANLEY: That's the answer to my
15
question.
16
MR. RANDOLPH: And a judgment that's against
17
the Town of Gulfstream in the public records case
18
which is published.
19
MR. STANLEY: Obviously. No one ever wants
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any judgments, so I understand.
MR. DERING: You may have said it but I missed
22
it, how many pages did he ask the staff to copy?
23
MR. RANDOLPH: Oh, gosh. I did not say it but
24
I have my file here on the case.
25
MR. DERING: Better yet, what was the total
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1 bill at 15 cents?
2 MR. RANDOLPH: "Plaintiff sought to obtain by
3 personal delivery of written request to Rita
4 Taylor, the Town clerk and records custodian,
5 copies of all plans which are 11 by 17 in size and
6 of which are in regard to application Number 1 on
7 the agenda of the Town commission meeting dated
8 April 12, 2013 for the premises known as 3211 North
9 ocean Boulevard. Town clerk acknowledged receipt
10 of the request and informed plaintiff that the
11 request would take approximately 10 minutes to
12 fulfill. Approximately ten minutes later the Town
13 clerk returned with copies of the requested
14 documents. The Town clerk demanded $6.95 as a
15 condition of access to the public records. The
16 calculation of 6.95 included a charge of 15 cents
17 per 11 by 17 page in addition to a charge for the
18 time spent to retrieve copy and refile the public
19 records." It does not have a breakdown of the
20 number of pages.
21 MR. DERING: I guess I could have asked
22 separately what was the charge.
23 Did she offer at anytime to say, well, if you
24 don't want to pay for them well argue that later,
25 but here they are?
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MR. RANDOLPH: No. It's my understanding that
2
she did not. He just left without the records.
3
MR. DERING: So we didn't offer, okay. In any
4
of these -- whatever you call them
5
MR. RANDOLPH; Public records --
6
MR. DERING: -- no. In your answer to his
7
suit, or whatever, did we ever -- is the word
8
puppet in there anywhere?
9
MR. RANDOLPH: No.
10
MR. DERING: Why is he making this claim?
11
MR. RANDOLPH: He's using his own word to
12
describe the manner in which we filed our answer.
13
I'll tell you what we said exactly. "The Town.
14
averse that it is the Town's reasonable belief that
15
the public records request that is the subject of
16
this action was filed at the direction of Martin
17
O'Boyle. The Town averse in support of this belief
18
the following facts: At the time plaintiff brought
19
the public records request to the Town he was
20
accompanied by O'Boyle who was delivering his own
21
request at the time and another associate of
22
O'Boyle, Ryan Whitmer, who was also delivering a
23
request that the Town believes was submitted at the
24
direction of O'Boyle. The address listed on the
25
public records request is the same address provided
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1 by O'Boyle for the request that he had submitted to
2 the Town. The attorney of record for plaintiff is
3 also the attorney of record for four other actions
4 brought against the Town by or at O'Boyle's
5 direction with respect to various public records
6 request." And then, the Town averse that more than
7 400 public records requests had been filed, that
8 the Town has produced thousands of pages in
9 response. The about Town averse that the Town
10 staff," blah,'blah, blah, "The Town averse that the
11 records custodian was under the impression that the
12 request submitted by O'Boyle, Ryan Whitmer and
13 plaintiff could be treated as cumulative requests
14 for purpose of charging for extensive use of
15 resources." So that's -- the word puppet was never
16 used.
17 What I'd like to do is go back to Mr. Ring and
18 negotiate a figure with him up to the amount
19 requested unless you just say that you're not
20 willing to go up to $2,000 and the alternative is
21 we either go to court, which is not a good way to
22 go because of the expense, or we file some sort of
23 a statement admitting all of the allegations in the
24 complaint and leaving the matter of attorney fees
25 up to the court. That's still going to cost us
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extra money, so I'd like --
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MR. DERING: No question about that. I
3
guess -- I guess the issue is somewhere -- I
4
understand settlement is a whole lot cheaper, but
5
the issue is if we keep doing this how many keep
6
coming out of the woodwork?
7
MR. RANDOLPH: Well, we feel like we have a
8
pretty good handle on public records request at
9
this time, at least a better handle. There are
10
many more public -- I mean, Bill, you can talk at
11
this meeting -- but there have been -- I'm not
12
asking you to talk, I'm just telling you that --
13
there have been other public records requests filed
14
since this time by other groups including Mr.
15
O'Hare who was here, and including others who we
16
don't know who they represent. They might just be
17
people who are following in the footsteps of
18
Chandler to attempt to file a case and get a
19
monetary settlement like is being requested here.
20
But we do have a paralegal, it's actually a law
21
student, who is coming into Town Hall at a very low
22
rate to assist with the public records thing. So
23
we feel like we have a better handle on this than
24
we did back then when all of these were being --
25
were being filed. Our hope is that if we do that
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1 we can avert future public records request lawsuits
2 by complying exactly with the law as it relates to
3 these things. Now that's not a guarantee that
4 someone is not going to allege that they got some
5 rights to these records and that we may have some
6 disagreement on. But anything you do I suppose
7 could -- could cause a precedent if they see you
8 settled just like any other suit you file may cause
9 a precedent -- that you settle. $2,000 in this
10 case is --
11 MR. GANGER: Your knowledge base probably
12 isn't any different than mine with respect to Mr.
13 O'Boyle's filing of a lawsuit against the county
14 for a $1.89 charge. Is that -- is the County going
15 to -- according to the newspaper the county said
16 that they, you know, will take that one on. Is
17 there any precedent in what the county is doing
18 that could be helpful to us in anyway?
19 MR. RANDOLPH: In regard to -- let me just say
20 something. This hearing today has to strictly
21 relate to the settlement that's before you.
22 MR. GANGER: Okay.
23 MR, RANDOLPH: We should not have discussions
24 in regard to other suits -- other matters.
25 MR. GANGER: I understand that.
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MR. RANDOLPH: I ask if you want to talk about
2
what they might be doing or if there's anything
3
helpful in that regard that we -- that we discuss
4
that at another time.
5
MR. GANGER: Okay, fine. I withdraw the
6
question.
7
MAYOR ORTHWEIN: I would like to point out
8
that we do have Trey, he's a law student, and Keith
9
is very familiar with public records requests on
10
board now. We are handling things in a much more
11
appropriate way going forward.
12
MR. DERING: We have them available. The
13
issue is he didn't want to pay 15 cents. He wanted
14
to pay whatever the actual cost is which nobody
15
knows.
16
MR. RANDOLPH: I think he alleged it was more
17
like 7 or 8 cents, something like that. The fact
18
is -- I'm not sure -- unless you want to go in and
19
fight this case which would cost you a lot more
20
than $2,000, I'm not sure the -- that it serves
21
very much purpose for us to discuss whether we're
22
right or they were right in regard to this public
23
records request. I think we got some, you know, we
24
got some good arguments to make in court, but
25
that's not the issue before you today if you don't
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1 want to go to court and spend money paying me to go
2 to court and possibly pay their attorney fees. The
3 issue today is if you want to get rid of this one
4 and move on.
5 MR. DERING: The issue is if we got any holes
6 in our case or we're pretty ironclad in your
7 opinion legally then you still got to make the
8 judgment --
9 MAYOR ORTHWEIN: I appreciate all your
10 comments, but under the situation -- the situation
11 we're dealing with and everything that happened
12 with the public records request this summer I think
13 it's -- it would be prudent on our part to give
14 Skip the direction to pay up to 2,000 and try to
15 settle for less. We have everything in place now
16 to deal with public records requests. It was
17 unfortunate we got into this situation but we did,
18 and I think we need to move forward and not tie up
19 and pay more legal fees trying to fight something.
20 That is my opinion.
21 MR. GANGER: I completely --
22 MR. DERING: I'm not here saying we should
23 fight it. I'm here because -- it's got nothing to
24 do with this, but I've seen these types of things
25 happen before and you keep doing it, guess what,
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they keep coming at you. They're paying attorney
2
fees if
we win?
3
MR.
RANDOLPH: No.
4
MR.
DERING: No?
5
MR.
RANDOLPH: No. We have to pay their
6
attorney
fees.
7
MR.
DERING: If we win?
B
MR.
RANDOLPH: Right.
9
MAYOR
ORTHWEIN: This is something that -- I
10
don't --
11
MR.
DERING: Excuse me a minute. If we go to
12
court we
pay our attorney fees --
13
MR.
RANDOLPH: I don't think so --
14
MR.
DERING: -- and we pay their attorney fees
15
even if
we win?
16
MR.
RANDOLPH: I think the statute provides,
17
and I'll
have to look at it and get back to you,
16
but I think
the statute provides -- I don't think
19
it says
the prevailing party gets attorneys fees.
20
I think
it says in the event that the person filing
21
the public
records request prevails that they're
22
entitled
to their attorney fees.
23
MR.
DERING: So if they prevail we pay their
24
attorney's
fees. If they don't we pay ours and
25
they pay
theirs?
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1 MR. RANDOLPH: Yes.
2 MR. DERING: Excuse me, I just wasn't clear.
3 MAYOR ORTHWEIN: That's fine if you want to
4 clarify that.
5 MR. GANGER: Joan, you made the point, and
6 it's a point well taken. This is one you want
7 behind you. I'm 100 percent confident Skip will do
8 his damnedest to get a fair settlement. I think
9 $2,000 is an outrageous amount of money for what --
10 for this purpose. I would start lower and
11 authorize you to go to $2,000 and do it quickly.
12 As you say here, time is not our friend and --
13 MR. RANDOLPH: That was his letter.
14 MR. GANGER: I understand. But I think -- I
15 understand where he is, too. This could drag out
16 and cost more and more money and more angst and
17 everything else.
18 MR. RANDOLPH: I will use my discretion in
19 regard to Item 3. I told Bill Ring we can't redact
20 something that's already filed in the court. So he
21 may ask for a -- something else. But if he does
22 I'll have to come back to you. Remember, whatever
23 happens in regard to the settlement has got to be
24 done in public, so if there's a -- a nuance to this
25 that I haven't presented to you today I would come
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back to you in another short closed -door session
2
and tell you what happened and then we can settle
3
at the public meeting after.
4
If it's your consensus today that you give me
5
the authority to negotiate up to $2,000 on this
6
settlement I will do that and then when you resume
7
at your public part of the meeting there's nothing
e
to announce because you haven't settled yet, but
9
you could say we had the meeting, we've given
10
Mr. Randolph direction in regard to how to proceed
11
period. That's what you would do at the public
12
meeting and then you would adjourn.
13
MR, GANGER: Just for facts, because if
14
somebody reads this in the public record, is this
15
gentleman who brought this a resident or
16
representing a resident?
17
MR. RANDOLPH: No. No, he's not a resident.
18
MR. GANGER: I personally -- that's germane to
19
me.
20
MS. WHITE: Do you know his profession?
21
MR. RANDOLPH: He's an attorney --
22
MS. WHITE: He's an attorney --
23
MR. RANDOLPH: -- maybe he's not.
24
MR. THRASHER: I do not believe he is. This
25
is how he makes his money he and his brother.
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1 MR. RANDOLPH: What's the name of the
2 organization?
3 MR. THRASHER: Fogwatch, one word.
4 MR. RANDOLPH: You're right, he's not an
5 attorney.
6 If there's not -- there should be a bullet
7 here, but if it's the consensus that we proceed as
6 Mr. Ganger has suggested to allow me to negotiate
9 to resolve this lawsuit and get a dismissal and
10 releases up to $2,000 I will go ahead and do that
11 unless I hear something from you to the contrary.
12 MAYOR ORTHWEIN: I'm in agreement with that,
13 obviously, that's what I stated.
14 MR. STANLEY: I'm in agreement.
15 MR. RANDOLPH: Okay. We can adjourn this
16 closed door session at this point. This meeting
17 will terminate. We'll go back into public session.
1s If there's still members of the public that are
19 waiting we should ask them to come in.
20 MR. GANGER: I don't believe there are. Rita
21 has to come back for the adjournment.
22 MAYOR ORTHWEIN: We're adjourned.
23 (Whereupon the session is concluded at 6:35 p.m.)
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TOWN OF GULF STREAM
PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA
Delivered via e-mail
July 14, 2015
Chris O'Hare [mail to: chrisoharegulfstream @gmail.com]
Re: GS #1882 (Chandler shade meeting)
The transcript of any attorney /client session of the Town Commission to discuss Joel Chandler vs.
Town of Gulf Stream that was conducted in 2013.
Dear Chris O'Hare [mail to: chrisohareeulfstream (a)email.coml,
The Town of Gulf Stream received your public records requests on July 8, 2015. You should be
able to view your original requests at the following link http://www2.gulf-
stream.ore/weblink/0 /doc /57289 /Pagel.asyx. In future correspondence, please refer to this public
records request by the above referenced numbers.
The responsive documents can be found at same above link.
We consider this matter closed.
Sincerely,
Town Clerk, Custodian of the Records