This page lists meetings where a speaker used any of these words: transparency, open meetings law, foil, freedom of information. Search this topic to filter by body or year, or search the exact word only.
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- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/261 passage25:56She's she can sign vital records. She can city clerk. She has been inundated with foils. I just want to mention that. Um she what else? She does everything. She helps me with the record retention, dispositions, things like that. Um, she is my go-to. Like, if I'm not here, Sherry's got it. Sherry knows what's going on. She can sign for everything for the most part. I keep her …
- 10:12But since this whole thing happened in the county, we put up our public transparency portal on the city website. Um Bowen wants to pull it up. That's up to him. So anyone can see, you know, how many plates are being read that like it doesn't give you any data, just numbers of what's being read, what's being hit. Um our hot list that we have on there is updated by New York …
- 26:28there there is not time between now and getting this posted before the meeting on Monday through open meetings law to do research on caps and fines uh and get it to the full council for Monday because it has to be laid on everybody's desk in final format on Monday. There is not time for that.
- 17:26So in the interest of fairness and transparency and maintaining the integrity of the process, uh the vote will be conducted again and this time the ballots will be distributed and controlled directly by the office. So in other words, we're doing check off uh through the management office to ensure that each resident has a equal opportunity to participate and that the outcome …
- 52:07… amendments from legal um for the vacancy and uh we had our our three there was the um yep the vacant vacant buildings um to which we had a foil request for uh vacant buildings and we only had two registered vacant buildings. We now have four. Okay.
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p3 passages longer discussion38:01Um, also I would say uh regarding the sheriff who said that she has a forward- facing website about her transparency, if you look at that website, it is created by Flock. It has a Flock logo right on it on the top left. It is something generated by clock for any law enforcement that's being challenged LPRs. So on there
- 1:16:26… so that everybody gets the same opportunity. Um not only for this public hearing, but for all public hearings uh so that there is transparency of fairness in terms of opportunities to speak.
- 55:07… Uh this is pretty much been the the routine of the department. Uh that said, this year we did uh we had a pretty I say pretty uh hefty uh foil requests uh that we needed to be to work on. And so the full-time staff have been uh have been working on that as well, provided that entails some um administrative uh duties. Um so that has taken up um a good deal of time.
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Meetings with the most passages that use the topic's words.
- 35:18So my understanding is that this committee the the way it was formed and the basis for this committee is not one that is subject to the open meetings law. However, um I haven't been asked to nor have I looked specifically at this issue. This has been something that's been a long-standing practice that's been prior to my um coming in as as legal counsel. So, but my …
- 35:12… is not to my knowledge enacted it's something we've requested from the state but my understanding is it's not there and we're looking for transparency i would say that we're looking for transparency not predicated on a 25 mile an hour speed limit so while i think that the idea about the transparency is great i don't quite get why it is uh linked to that 25 mile an hour or …
- 56:03… next informal or a special meeting just for comments okay I would also like to raise another question myself having to do with the lack of transparency of the DRI committee I'm just rating this issue other people have brought this up on social media I'd particularly like to focus on the insistence on the part of the DRI committee and they're published minutes that the …
- 2026-03-18County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || March 18, 20265 passages longer discussion17:03well there's multiple foils for Mr. file for but we can only provide documents um as far as answering a foil and these have all been um vetted through the county attorney's office. So Patric
- 2024-06-25HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 6/25/2024 Board of Education Meeting5 passages longer discussion40:20so shouldn't be that that be the address on the website because it's if if the DBA meaning doing business ads the husband children Festival is doing business as is is what DBA stands for and you act and they ask you where's the address of the place and you say your address for instance that's the address that should go on the website for transparency and Truth
- 30:27… Monitor the issuance and execution of search warrants confused by both state agencies and local municipalities so hopefully there's more transparency around how often these search warrants are being executed for what reasons and in the rare case that there is any sort of grievance file we have a
- 1:55:43with regard to openness and transparency because that existing dri committee as of its meeting summary of march 18 2020 right after the pandemic emergency was declared began to maintain that it was not subject to the open meetings law that was decided by someone who's no longer on the committee and who was that that's not important it is i would love to know who decided that …
- 51:34Um, any further questions? The next item relates to a uh foil request that we received last week.
- 2025-04-01*Other / CommitteePublic Hearing Petition to Amend the City Charter4 passages longer discussion50:27… of this change argue that a city manager will bring professionalism and expertise. However, expertise should never come at the expense of transparency. A city manager, no matter how qualified, is not beholden to the values, aspirations, and lived experiences of the people of Hudson. Their allegiance is to process and policy, not to the pulse of our neighborhood. Hudson's …
- 10:44… when it was requested. And never provided us with a cohesive complete presentation of the finances and design of the project. This lack of transparency is troubling to say the least. Eric Galloway is one of two principals in the foundation that owns over 80 properties in Hudson. He is the only person in the Hudson family to own a property.
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- 10:44… when it was requested. And never provided us with a cohesive complete presentation of the finances and design of the project. This lack of transparency is troubling to say the least. Eric Galloway is one of two principals in the foundation that owns over 80 properties in Hudson. He is the only person in the Hudson family to own a property.
- 1:27:13… submit it to the board with a request that it be kept confidential and the board will review it in accordance with the requirements under FOIL for marking it confidential. That's a good idea, Jeff. And Jeff, I just want to point out that the 2016 traffic evaluation not only did it calculate the maximum output of the dock based on how many barges per day, two barges per day …
- 2026-09-28Other / CommitteeBoard of Estimate and Apportionment Clerk, Council, RMO, Animal Control 9/28/261 passage25:56She's she can sign vital records. She can city clerk. She has been inundated with foils. I just want to mention that. Um she what else? She does everything. She helps me with the record retention, dispositions, things like that. Um, she is my go-to. Like, if I'm not here, Sherry's got it. Sherry knows what's going on. She can sign for everything for the most part. I keep her …
- 10:12But since this whole thing happened in the county, we put up our public transparency portal on the city website. Um Bowen wants to pull it up. That's up to him. So anyone can see, you know, how many plates are being read that like it doesn't give you any data, just numbers of what's being read, what's being hit. Um our hot list that we have on there is updated by New York …
- 26:28there there is not time between now and getting this posted before the meeting on Monday through open meetings law to do research on caps and fines uh and get it to the full council for Monday because it has to be laid on everybody's desk in final format on Monday. There is not time for that.
- 17:26So in the interest of fairness and transparency and maintaining the integrity of the process, uh the vote will be conducted again and this time the ballots will be distributed and controlled directly by the office. So in other words, we're doing check off uh through the management office to ensure that each resident has a equal opportunity to participate and that the outcome …
- 52:07… amendments from legal um for the vacancy and uh we had our our three there was the um yep the vacant vacant buildings um to which we had a foil request for uh vacant buildings and we only had two registered vacant buildings. We now have four. Okay.
- 2026-09-09County Board of SupervisorsFull Board || September 9, 2026 HD 720p3 passages longer discussion38:01Um, also I would say uh regarding the sheriff who said that she has a forward- facing website about her transparency, if you look at that website, it is created by Flock. It has a Flock logo right on it on the top left. It is something generated by clock for any law enforcement that's being challenged LPRs. So on there
- 1:16:26… so that everybody gets the same opportunity. Um not only for this public hearing, but for all public hearings uh so that there is transparency of fairness in terms of opportunities to speak.
- 55:07… Uh this is pretty much been the the routine of the department. Uh that said, this year we did uh we had a pretty I say pretty uh hefty uh foil requests uh that we needed to be to work on. And so the full-time staff have been uh have been working on that as well, provided that entails some um administrative uh duties. Um so that has taken up um a good deal of time.
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 20263 passages longer discussion1:46:12everything's foilable. Send us and you can send an email to foil that right?
- 2026-08-11Planning BoardPlanning Board Meeting Pt. 1(Public Hearing) 8/11/263 passages longer discussion19:56I think we all all of us need to know and should know. So where's the transparency about what's going to go forward? Um how how is this going to be done? Where is the safety issues? What is the environmental impact? How are you going to remediate that? And I don't even care about it's not even about the cost. It's about the safety and the well-being and the health of all of us.
- 11:59And I want to take a moment and thank Linda who has been not only has she gotten blisters on her since but also has responded to numerous foil requests. It's been a busy five or six weeks. So thank you Linda. You've been a great colleague and supporter. Um, so we've all experienced uh engagement in government and and has raring degrees of satisfaction and usually pretty low …
- 21:55Um then I looked at the invoices from um Mr. Ryan's firm. Uh there was $90 for foil. Uh 1687 for Mil Street litigation, 13 for a um collective. I don't know what that particular piece is. Then there was 630 for another litigation relating to the waterfront. Um then a couple of other items. Zoning board of appeals, planning board professional services was 897. Um so yes, I mean …
- 24:42the operator say he was traveling west on Green Street when he fell asleep with the wheel and uh the other one uh down by Mckinbury. The operator say the vehicle pulled to the right causing the vehicle to hit another one. So we just want to make sure that there's transparency. Uh I have eight of the similar reports.
- 8:55No. Uh we uh you did address a foil request that we had received with respect to the piping project. Uh and we are now working on the midyear pilot payments and uh we're hoping that uh well about half of the projects that have been approved are completed. Those $175 million of projects approved over the last five years and we're now uh working with the developers to assist …
- 2026-06-16HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 6/16/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:51:50Um, so that's something that we will take under consideration because we absolutely want to ensure transparency and confidence, bolstering confidence in our community.
- 49:40So that will be available before the next meeting. But yet uh we were wanted it to be clear to the request for of the foil that the IDA has not taken any of the actions or reviews that were requested for documentation because the report wasn't due until uh last Friday. But it also demonstrates that we have to have systems in place to be able to monitor these things because in …
- 14:46… a couple of minutes um to give a larger perspective. I know what your responsibilities are to review the site plan, but for interests of transparency for the public. Um I just want to give you a couple of words on where we are in the process. This is a long process. The primary funding for this project is going to come from New York State Division of Homes and Community …
- 2026-05-05HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 5/5/2026 Board of Education Meeting2 passages51:09The highest priorities that came from those focus groups dealt with communication and transparency, rebuilding trust and morale, academic improvement, instructional focus, and accountability systems.
- 51:34Um, any further questions? The next item relates to a uh foil request that we received last week.
- 1:09:07I believe it revised a charter from the 20s. Before we set up a charter that might be governing Hudson for the next 50 years, we need to take our time and do this slowly, carefully, and and not rush through it. And I think that at every stage of the process, there should be maximum transparency and maximum public participation. Thank you.
- 2026-04-21HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 4/21/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:45:56… voter confidence. And I think last year's challenges created some shakiness in voter confidence. I want to make sure that we maintain transparency but also give people accurate information. So I think that bouncing around was shaky for folks. I want to make sure that people feel confident when those numbers do come out.
- 10:59I think that I'm gonna offer the site. It is a public site that can be searched. It does add to transparency, but
- 29:01Um we just put our like our parking reports online. Um but if it's something that you would want, you would have to just foil it.
- 2026-03-18County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || March 18, 20265 passages longer discussion17:03well there's multiple foils for Mr. file for but we can only provide documents um as far as answering a foil and these have all been um vetted through the county attorney's office. So Patric
- 16:05All right, that's all I got on that. Um next. Okay, so R or day and the foil request. So the foil request which stands for freedom of information law
- 30:19I'm just I appreciate your um statement and when I asked initially for the statement um it was also for transparency for us as council members to be able to respond to the public. Um because as Jason said in his statement, what people are seeing on the video, the court of public opinion makes sense out of our hands. We can't change their mind based on what they're seeing. But …
- 9:20… extensive research uh to determine the level of dock activity. In 2011, I researched city and planning board records. I also conducted a foil request of the 2009200 Greenport planning board review of OMG Industries application for a site plan permit to designate the rail bed into a truckway to uh truck aggregate from the quarry to the dock.
- 2026-03-10HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 3/10/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage3:02:20… working on analyzing all this data for the math. So So, we have seen some improvement from our students, right? Like we you know, full transparency, we still have you know, many of our students are still below grade level, but they are showing improvement along the way. So, once again, it goes back to, you know, we have to be able to walk before we can run. We need to get …
- 55:55Uh well, you foiled for it three times, Bill. You don't remember? Check your records.
- 1:33:06… come back out. you're still in the meeting, then you close the meeting. Um, attorney client privilege is actually entirely outside of the open meetings law. Lovely.
- 18:10those rules are actually they um run until this July. So I'm curious to see what the state does. If they get defect, they may modify the open meetings law.
- 32:42So uh that was two old items. We also reviewed uh the open meetings law, video conferencing law which we are going to be discussing later this evening. Uh we just went through that. We did not have any changes to make to it. Um we Hudson put in place a local law in 2022 at the end of CO. Um the state updated its video conferencing. They've updated again last year. Um so we do …
- 4:59… month uh uh Linda and Andrew and I will be kind of looking over the systems that are in place tweaking them where necessary looking at the transparency of the process and uh that's really the only finances we have as a group.
- 2026-02-10CEDC (Columbia Economic Development Corp.)CEDC Governance and Nominating Committee Meeting 2/10/262 passages14:48Then you know two people the numbers too long. It's yeah uh the transparency that we were trying to reestablish
- 23:37… paid us for the full year even though we didn't start Columbia forward or the housing project until mid year and I felt uh at least for transparency at that point in time that we should not say that we earned that money uh because uh someone came back and said you were you got $100,000 for a year and you only started in July. Why are you uh booking that money? Uh in retrospect …
- 2026-01-20HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 1/20/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:50:14Certainly acknowledging the fact that pretty much every single foil request has been has resulted in digital reproductions and the chance of somebody um incurring these charges are uh minimal. Um any questions about this set of records or this set of policies?
- 2026-01-07HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 1/7/2026 Board of Education Meeting3 passages longer discussion0:57All right. [clears throat] Thank you. Welcome to this uh board workshop. Uh pursuant to the New York State Open Meetings Law Section 1044, Board of Education President Mark Pace will participate remotely via video conferencing from 2000 East 9th Street, Cleveland, Ohio. Members of the public may attend public portions of the meeting at any of the locations.
- 2025-12-16HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 12/16/2025 Board of Education Meeting3 passages longer discussion18:17Yeah. So um you know I think it's uh in my opinion one of those cases where you know multiple things can be true that that you know foil requests are costly and you know take up a lot of time not just for us but also um other resources that we have but uh there's not maybe nothing that um a citizens have to be able to submit foil requests um but also nothing that would really …