Bellingham School District Past Due Lunch Bills
| Submitted | Oct. 15, 2019 |
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Communications
From: Robert Teel
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Washington Public Records Act, I hereby request the following records:
All documents or statements reflecting the current district wide, unpaid amount of student meal debt.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 5 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Robert Teel
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Washington Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 15, 2019. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Bellingham School District No. 501
October 22, 2019
Robert Teel
617-299-1832
requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
MuckRock News Dept MR 81808
411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144
Dear Mr. Teel,
I received your request for information under the Public Records Act via email on Oct. 21, 2019.
You are requesting the following:
* All documents or statements reflecting the current district wide, unpaid amount of student meal debt
I notice that you are located in Massachusetts. Because we do very often receive mistaken requests to us here in Washington state for Bellingham Public Schools of Bellingham, Massachusetts (www.bellinghamk12.org<http://www.bellinghamk12.org>), please advise immediately if this request has been in error.
In the meantime, we will continue to process your records request as per your Oct. 21 email. We will immediately begin searching to determine if these records exist and will make them available to you as soon as they are ready. We anticipate being able to respond fully to your request by Nov. 5, 2019, if not sooner.
Please feel free to contact me at (360) 676-6420 or Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org> if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Dana Smith
Communications Manager | Public Records Officer
Bellingham Public Schools
1306 Dupont Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
www.bellinghamschools.org<http://www.bellinghamschools.org>
From: Bellingham School District No. 501
Good Morning,
I forwarded your initial request on to our Communications Dept. as they handle these requests. I believe Dana Smith, our Communications Manager, has already reached out to you. Please contact her directly if you need anything further.
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Chelsea Jackson
Bellingham Public Schools | P: 360-676-6572
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Teach to the heart and the mind will follow. ~K.Dominguez
From: Bellingham School District No. 501
To whom it may concern,
Here is the correspondence regarding this records request that I sent to this email address on Oct. 22, 2019. Please update your records to use Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org for all correspondence. As per our district website and policy 4040<https://bellinghamschools.org/about/departments/communications-community/public-records-requests/>, all inquiries regarding records requests should be directed toward me as public records officer.
We did not receive any messages back as undeliverable.
Sincerely,
Dana Smith
October 22, 2019
Robert Teel
617-299-1832
requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
MuckRock News Dept MR 81808
411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144
Dear Mr. Teel,
I received your request for information under the Public Records Act via email on Oct. 21, 2019.
You are requesting the following:
* All documents or statements reflecting the current district wide, unpaid amount of student meal debt
I notice that you are located in Massachusetts. Because we do very often receive mistaken requests to us here in Washington state for Bellingham Public Schools of Bellingham, Massachusetts (www.bellinghamk12.org<http://www.bellinghamk12.org>), please advise immediately if this request has been in error.
In the meantime, we will continue to process your records request as per your Oct. 21 email. We will immediately begin searching to determine if these records exist and will make them available to you as soon as they are ready. We anticipate being able to respond fully to your request by Nov. 5, 2019, if not sooner.
Please feel free to contact me at (360) 676-6420 or Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org> if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Dana Smith
Communications Manager | Public Records Officer
Bellingham Public Schools
1306 Dupont Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
www.bellinghamschools.org<http://www.bellinghamschools.org>
From: Bellingham School District No. 501
To whom it may concern,
Please update your records for this request to use my email address as the contact. I am the public records officer for the district, and my address is: dana.smith@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:dana.smith@bellinghamschools.org>
I am unable to login to fulfill the request because the contact email you have on file is: BPS.MealPayments@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:BPS.MealPayments@bellinghamschools.org>
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I will not be able to fulfill this request until you update your contact information.
Sincerely,
Dana Smith
Dana K. Smith | she/her
Communications Manager | Public Records Officer
Bellingham Public Schools
Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org> | 360.676.6520
1306 Dupont, Bellingham, WA 98225
#lovebhamschools #bhampromise
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From: Bellingham School District No. 501
A copy of documents responsive to the request.
From: Bellingham School District No. 501
October 29, 2019
Robert Teel
617-299-1832
requests@muckrock.com<mailto:requests@muckrock.com>
MuckRock News Dept MR 81808
411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144
Dear Mr. Teel,
I received your request for information under the Public Records Act via email on Oct. 21, 2019.
You requested the following:
* All documents or statements reflecting the current district wide, unpaid amount of student meal debt
The district reviewed your request under the PRA. Based on the responsive records, we have compiled the following answer to your request.
As of Oct. 21, 2019, our districtwide meal charge debt balance was $106,175.54. Please note that this includes meal debt rolled over from 2016-17, 2017-18, and 2018-19 as well as the 2019-20 school year thus far.
In Bellingham Public Schools, meal debt is governed by our policy 6700<https://bellinghamschools.org/policies/6700-policy-meal-charges/> and procedure 6700<https://bellinghamschools.org/procedures/6700-procedure-meal-charges/>, which were adopted on June 27, 2017.
With this response, we have fulfilled your records request and now consider your request closed. Because of some communications challenges with these email correspondences, I have also communicated this information via U.S. Mail.
Please feel free to contact me at (360) 676-6420 or Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org> if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Dana Smith
Communications Manager | Public Records Officer
Bellingham Public Schools
1306 Dupont Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
www.bellinghamschools.org<http://www.bellinghamschools.org>
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From: Robert Teel
Hi Dana,
Thanks for the timely and complete response. I will try to reach you tomorrow to further discuss. While $106,000 is bit beyond my budget, perhpas there's a way for me to help reduce this amount (maybe one school at a time).
Thanks again.
Robert Teel
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I'm following up on the following Washington Public Records Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Oct. 15, 2019. You had previously indicated that it would be completed on Nov. 5, 2019. I wanted to check on the status of my request, and to see if there was a new estimated completion date.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Bellingham School District No. 501
To whom it may concern:
This records request was fulfilled on October 29, 2019 via email and U.S. Mail (email and letter scan attached as PDF). I also received an email response from the original requestor thanking me for fulfilling the request (attached).
As I noted multiple times in my correspondence, I was unable to access the document upload link because it was connected to the incorrect email address. Thus, I corresponded both by email and U.S. Mail to the address on the original records request:
MuckRock News Dept MR 91909
411A Highland Ave
Somerville, MA 02144
This concludes Bellingham Public School's response to your request for records. Please remove this records request from your active list, as it has been fulfilled as of Oct. 29, 2019.
Sincerely,
Dana K. Smith
Dana K. Smith | she/her
Communications Manager | Public Records Officer
Bellingham Public Schools
Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org<mailto:Dana.Smith@bellinghamschools.org> | 360.676.6520
1306 Dupont, Bellingham, WA 98225
#lovebhamschools #bhampromise
