Piedmont looking to charge for FOIA requests
Mineral Daily News-Tribune
PIEDMONT - A series of requests which Piedmont city officials are calling “unreasonable” prompted the council this week to begin the process of instituting a fee for the time it takes to provide documents requested by the public.
According to mayor Paula Boggs, just one of the recent requests by a resident of the town had involved copies of the town’s bank account information, and it had amounted to almost 500 pages.
“We gave him 499 pages of bank statements and he was mad with took the account number off,” she said, adding that while the statement is public information, the account number is not.
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Candidates set for Piedmont election
Liz Beavers
Tribune Managing Editor
PIEDMONT - Voters in the City of Piedmont will be going to the polls Monday, May 10, to return the current mayor and three of five council members to their seats.
Mayor Paula Boggs is running unopposed in the city election, as well as council members Terry LaRue, Rhonda Niland and Greg Harvey.
The other seat coming open this year is currently held by Rick Butler, who chose not to run.
The fifth seat, currently held by finance commissioner Paul Coleman, does not come open this year.
Once the election is over and the unopposed candidates are back in their seats, it will be up to them to appoint someone to fill Butler’s seat.