Virginia Neal Blue

Good afternoon,

All public business records maintained by the office of the Colorado Secretary of State are accessible online, through our Business Database Search<https://www.coloradosos.gov/biz/BusinessEntityCriteriaExt.do?resetTransTyp=Y>.

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Good afternoon,

As provided in our rules related to CORA and allowed under section 24-72-205(6), C.R.S., we charge a fee of $30 per hour after the first hour of staff time required to search for, retrieve, and review the responsive documents (8 C.C.R. 1505-12-4.3). We have exceeded the initial one hour of time. In accordance with our rules, we will require you to pay a deposit equal to the estimated fees before beginning our review of the documents (8 C.C.R. 1505-12-4.4). If it appears that we will require additional time beyond the estimate, we will advise you of the additional time and request approval of the additional charges before proceeding. If the request takes less time than estimated, we will refund the unearned portions of the deposit.

We estimate that completing your request will take 35 hours of time and therefore we require a deposit of $1,050.00 to proceed. Payment may be made by check, made out to the Colorado Secretary of State, and delivered to "ATTN: FINANCE, CORA PAYMENT" at the address in the signature block below. Please remit payment by 16 August, 2024. If we do not receive payment, we will consider your request closed.

Alternatively, you may choose to narrow the scope of your request to reduce or eliminate this fee. Should you choose to narrow your request, please revoke your initial request, in writing per our policy<https://www.coloradosos.gov/pubs/info_center/files/CORA-PolicyProcedures.pdf>, and submit a new request. We will provide a response within the statutory timeframe for any new request.

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Good afternoon,

On Friday, July 26th, our office received multiple emails from you regarding your CORA request (for ease of reference, I've attached those emails). The below responses answer your various questions.

1. 35 hours of time doing what? Can you be more detailed in your invoice? You'd be doing what for how long? To how many?
* Fulfilling your request would require staff time for both collection and review for legal withholding as required by law. Staff time would be spent primarily on collection and review of responsive correspondence.
2. What records were uncovered in this first hour?
* While an initial collection was performed, our office is required by law to review all records it releases under CORA.
3. How much would it cost for records from July 7th to July 21st?
* This new request has been received. Our office will respond within the statutory timeframe.

Thank you,

Good afternoon,

As provided in our rules related to CORA and allowed under section 24-72-205(6), C.R.S., we charge a fee of $30 per hour after the first hour of staff time required to search for, retrieve, and review the responsive documents (8 C.C.R. 1505-12-4.3). We have exceeded the initial one hour of time. In accordance with our rules, we will require you to pay a deposit equal to the estimated fees before beginning our review of the documents (8 C.C.R. 1505-12-4.4). If it appears that we will require additional time beyond the estimate, we will advise you of the additional time and request approval of the additional charges before proceeding. If the request takes less time than estimated, we will refund the unearned portions of the deposit.

We estimate that completing your request will take 6.1 hours of time and therefore we require a deposit of $182 to proceed. Payment may be made by check, made out to the Colorado Secretary of State, and delivered to "ATTN: FINANCE, CORA PAYMENT" at the address in the signature block below. Please remit payment by 22 August, 2024. If we do not receive payment, we will consider your request closed.

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Good afternoon,

You may stipulate if you want records electronically, or as physical copies. Our default is to send records electronically. The process for collection and review depends on the type of record implicated.

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Good afternoon,

On August 1st, 2024, our office provided a cost estimate in response to your CORA request (see attached). In accordance with our rules, we require payment of a deposit equal to the estimated fees before beginning our review. As of the August 22nd deadline, our office has not received payment for this request. As such, we will consider this request closed.

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Good afternoon,

Fulfilling this request would require staff time for both collection and review for legal withholding as required by law. Staff time would be spent primarily on collection and review of responsive correspondence. However, as communicated on August 23rd, 2024, our office has not received payment and has therefore closed this request. You may, of course, submit a new request. Our office will provide a response within the statutory timeframe for any new request.

Thank you,

Good afternoon,

If payment has not been made by September 20th, 2024 our office will presume you have abandoned your request. Fulfilling your request would require staff time for both collection and review for legal withholding as required by law. Staff time would be spent primarily on collection and review of responsive correspondence.

Thank you,

Good afternoon,

Completing your request will take 6.1 hours of additional staff time to search for, retrieve, and review the responsive records. That is based on an initial search determining there will be at least 182 pages of records to review. Our office charges a fee of $30 per hour after the first hour of staff time spent. This adds up to a fee estimate of $182.00.

Our office retains all CORA requests for two years; however, we administratively close those requests where deposits are not paid.

Thank you,