MARTA RFP P50520 Incident Reporting Platform Follow Up

This email provides an initial response to your Open Records Act request received on October 9, 2024. First, I would like to thank you for your request to review the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority’s (“MARTA”) records. At this time, MARTA is awaiting confirmation for you to pay for this request.
As provided by O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71, the estimated cost to search, retrieve, copy and supervise access to the requested documents is $120.00. This fee includes a charge of $40.00 per hour (3 hours) to cover the administrative costs of assisting you with your request (i.e., staff time searching for, retrieving, and copying the requested documents) as authorized by O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71. This fee represents the hourly rate of the lowest paid full-time employee with the necessary skill and training to respond to your request. There is no charge for the first fifteen minutes. Should you need copies of any of the requested records, the charge is generally 10¢ per page for letter or legal sized documents. You will be charged the actual cost of $7.00 for non-standard documents or electronic media. Additionally, higher fees may be charged for certified copies or other specialized records, if provided by law. At this time, there appear to be approximately (1) one non-standard documents and/or electronic media that are subject to release under the open records law. Therefore, the estimated cost for this request is $127.00
In any instance in which an agency will seek costs in excess of $25.00 for responding to a request, the agency shall notify the requester within a reasonable amount of time not to exceed three business days and inform the requester of the estimate of the costs, and the agency may defer search and retrieval of the records until the requester agrees to pay the estimated costs unless the requester has stated in his or her request a willingness to pay an amount that exceeds the search and retrieval costs. Please be advised we do NOT certify documents. Please provide confirmation that you are willing to pay the cost associated with this request.
While it is the policy of MARTA to provide requested and available documents within three business days of the request, these documents cannot be made available within three business days. Upon confirmation of the associated cost with this request, MARTA will begin retrieving the requested records. In producing the requested records, MARTA may rely upon the exemptions contained in the following code sections : O.C.G.A. secs. 50-18-72(a) (41), and (42). If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at (404) 848-5220.

Latoya Hunter
Paralegal
Office of AGM of Legal Services
LHunter@itsmarta.com<mailto:LHunter@itsmarta.com>
404.848.6999
Fax 404.848.5225

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
2424 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30324

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Good Afternoon,

We will be placing this in the mail today to:

MuckRock News
DEPT MR 174198
263 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115

Thank you for your assistance.

All the best,

Latoya Hunter
Paralegal
NOTARY PUBLIC
Office of AGM of Legal Services
LHunter@itsmarta.com<mailto:LHunter@itsmarta.com>
404.848.6999
Fax 404.848.5225

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
2424 Piedmont Road NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30324

This email message and any documents accompanying this transmission may contain privileged and/or confidential information and is intended solely for the addressee(s) named above.

A letter stating the requester must agree to or prepay assessed or estimated fees in order for the agency to continue processing the request.

A letter stating the requester must agree to or prepay assessed or estimated fees in order for the agency to continue processing the request.