The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on 
August 4, 1998 at 2:30 P.M, at which time the respondents appeared but the complainant 
did not.    

	The following order by the Commission is hereby recommended on the basis of 
the record concerning the above-captioned complaint:

	1.  The complaint is hereby dismissed for failure to prosecute. 

	2.   The Commission wishes to admonish the complainant for his failure to notify 
the Commission that he would not appear at the hearing in this matter, which failure 
resulted in a waste of valuable state resources.   

	Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular 
meeting of August 26, 1998.

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Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission

PURSUANT TO SECTION 4-180(c), G.S., THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF 
EACH PARTY AND THE MOST RECENT MAILING ADDRESS, PROVIDED TO 
THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION, OF THE PARTIES OR THEIR 
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE.

THE PARTIES TO THIS CONTESTED CASE ARE:

James R. McLoughlin
7 Foothills Way
Bloomfield, CT 06002

Chairman, Blue Hills Fire District 
Commission; and Blue Hills Fire 
District Commission
c/o Atty. Philip K. Meister
Gersten & Gersten
234 Pearl Street
Hartford, CT 06103

__________________________
Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission

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