However, you can expect employees to be leaving as soon as they find work.
Vivian
Layoffs take effect Nov. 1.
Beyond ridiculous.
At 06:30 PM 9/18/2012, you wrote:
Thanks for finding that, Vivian!
How can the Archives even continue to be open two days per week between now
and November 1 if there are only three staff members? This is getting
ridiculous.
Dawn
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Michael and Vivian Saffold <
msaffold(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Here's the law pertaining to Saturdays.
>
> Code Section 45-13-50 states that the Division
> of Archives and History shall make accessible to
> the general public for not less than the hours of
> 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on every Saturday, except
> legal holidays and such days as..... division and
> the records therein, such records and facilities
> as are ordinarily available to the public during
> regular office hours on weekdays.
>
> With the Secretary of State laying off all but
> three staffers today, the Archives cannot
> possibly comply with idea of appointments to
> satisfy the open records law. One of the people
> retained is the building manager who knows
> nothing about history or the collection. The new
> director, Chris Davidson, is still employed as is one archivist.
>
> Vivian
>
>
> At 12:46 PM 9/18/2012, you wrote:
> > >
> > > The Secretary apparently believes that an appointment system fulfills
> > > the requirement of Georgia's Public Records and Open Records Act
> > > 50-18-70 (Public records "shall be open for a personal inspection by
> > > any citizen of this state at a reasonable time and place.")
> > >
> > > With further staff reductions
appointments will be few and
difficult to
> > > get.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >My understanding is that agencies housing public records must comply with
> a
> >request for access to those records within three business days (per *O.
> C.
> >G. A. § 50-18-71**).* I have to wonder how the Secretary thinks the
> >Archives will be able to meet that requirement on an appointment-only
> basis
> >with an even more limited staff than it has now. I feel, as Vivian does,
> >that such appointments will be difficult to come by. The public will
> >probably be pushed out in favor of workers from government agencies who
> are
> >dependent upon the records held at the Archives to maintain full
> >functionality of their respective departments.
> >
> >I have also heard through the grapevine, so to speak, that there is a law
> >somewhere (no idea where!) mandating that the Archives must be open on
> >Saturdays. Has anyone else heard this who can pinpoint a source?
> >
> >Dawn Watson
> >Rabun Gap, GA
> >
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