May 20, 2009
Hon. Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr.
Essex County Executive
Hall of Records, Room 405
465 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Newark, NJ, 07102
Re: OPRA Request
Embroidered/Silk Screen T-Shirts
Sundry Other Items of Apparel
Dear Mr. DiVincenzo:
As per the attached OPRA (Open Public Records Act) request of this date, CWA Local 1081 respectfully requires the relatable memorialized manner of records regarding the following:
- All documents delineating from what specific County departments’ operating accounts total expenditure for the purchase of the t-shirts originated, and in what specific respective monetary amounts, within the County’s fiscal years of 2005 through 2008.
- All documents delineating which of the County’s departments respectively received which amount and type (embroidered or silk screened) of t-shirts within the County’s fiscal years of 2005 through 2008.
- All documents delineating the countries of origin, other than the United States, of the County-ordered t-shirts if the resolution’s buy American requirement was not honored by the vendor contracted to supply the County the t-shirts within the County’s fiscal years of 2005 through 2008.
- If the “decision of the Board of Freeholders will be paramount where the price discrepancy favors the foreign goods or products and said decision does not conflict with the law”, and if the ordered t-shirts were not American made within the applicable years, all documents supporting the assertion that the price discrepancy favored the foreign goods or products within the County’s fiscal years of 2005 through 2008.
- All documents delineating the sundry other items of apparel, other than t-shirts, which the County purchased as either embroidered and/or silk screened within the County’s fiscal years of 2005 through 2008.
Sincerely,
David H. Weiner, President
CWA Local 1081