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From: The ECHO-Association <m.tracy@echo-association.com><\/strong><\/span> Rebekkah Shaw<\/strong><\/span> Dear Ms. Shaw,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n We hereby appeal the \u201caffirmed denial\u201d of the Chief Administrative Officer of Emigration Improvement District (\u201cEID\u201d aka Emigration Canyon Improvement District aka ECID) Micheal Scott Hughes under Utah Code Ann. 63G-2-403 regarding our request dated January 21, 2022, to inspect all email correspondence of Emigration Improvement District EID General Manager Eric Hawks and EID Operations Manager Larry Hall) from August 1, 2016 to November 1, 2016 and May 1, 2020 to September 1, 2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Please note the following for the purpose of this appeal:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Name: Mark Christopher Tracy<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Mailing Address: 1160 E. Buchnel Dr., Sandy, Utah 84094<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Daytime Phone Number: 929-208-6010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Date of GRAMA Request to the EID Certified Public Records Officer: January 21, 2022 (see<\/em><\/span> https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=9012<\/a><\/span>).<\/strong><\/p>\n Date of GRAMA Denial: February 1, 2022 (see<\/span> https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=9093<\/a><\/span>).<\/strong><\/p>\n Date of GRAMA Appeal to Chief Administrative Officer: March 3, 2021 (<\/span>see<\/span> id<\/a><\/span><\/em>).<\/strong><\/p>\n Date of GRAMA decision of the Chief Administrative Officer: No response.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Relief Sought \/ Grounds for Appeal: Disclosure of all email correspondence of EID General Manager Eric Hawks and EID Operations Manager Larry Hall) from August 1, 2016 to November 1, 2016 and May 1, 2020 to September 1, 2020.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Under Utah Code Ann. sec. 63G-2-201(1)(a) \u201ca person has the right to inspect a public record free of charge, and the right to take a copy of a public record during normal working hours\u201d if the record is not privileged or confidential.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Utah State Records Committee has previous rejected the argument that a governmental entity may disregard a lawful request for public records because a courtesy copy was also provided to the designated public records office (see Tracy v. EID<\/em>, Case No. 21-45 available at https:\/\/echo-association.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/SRC-Decision-and-Order-1.pdf<\/a><\/span>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, the Utah State Court of Appeals has expressly ruled that the designated public records office of the governmental entity must be listed in the GRAMA request for the purpose of further litigation. \u00a0See Tracy v. Simplify Company et. al<\/em>, Case No. 20200275, Utah Ct. App.)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Please also note that the requested public records are directly relevant to federal litigation pending against Utah Attorney Jeremy Cook, EID Chief Administrative Officer Michael Scott Hughes, EID Certified Public Records Officer Eric Hawkes and Emigration Canyon Mayor Joe Smolka et al. (see<\/em> https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=1524<\/a> and<\/span> https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=818<\/a><\/span>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Kind Regards,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Mark Christopher Tracy<\/strong><\/span> From: The ECHO-Association <m.tracy@echo-association.com> Subject: Appeal to the Utah State Records Committee (Ref: Hawkes and Hall Emails) Date: March 16, 2022 at 3:29:10 PM MDT To: SRCsecretary@utah.gov Cc: Jennifer Hawkes <hawkes@ecmetro.org>, eric@ecid.org, mike@ecid.org, brent@ecid.org, dave@ecid.org, larryh@aquaenviron.com Rebekkah Shaw SRC Executive Secretary 346 S. Rio Grande Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1106 Phone: 801-531-3851 Fax: 801-531-3867 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9122,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9118\/revisions\/9122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSubject: Appeal to the Utah State Records Committee (Ref: Hawkes and Hall Emails)<\/strong><\/span>
\nDate: March 16, 2022 at 3:29:10 PM MDT<\/strong><\/span>
\nTo: SRCsecretary@utah.gov<\/strong><\/span>
\nCc: Jennifer Hawkes <hawkes@ecmetro.org>, eric@ecid.org, mike@ecid.org, brent@ecid.org, dave@ecid.org, larryh@aquaenviron.com<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nSRC Executive Secretary<\/strong><\/span>
\n346 S. Rio Grande<\/strong><\/span>
\nSalt Lake City, UT 84101-1106<\/strong><\/span>
\nPhone: 801-531-3851<\/strong><\/span>
\nFax: 801-531-3867<\/strong><\/span>
\nEmail: SRCsecretary@utah.gov<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u2013 qui tam Relator<\/strong><\/span>
\nTel. 929-208-6010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"