FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

            The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on Thursday, April 24, 2003, at which time the complainant and counsel for the respondent appeared. At an informal conference held after the opening of the hearing, the complainant and counsel for the respondent reached the terms of an agreement in resolution of this contested case.

 

In that agreement, the parties agreed that:

           

            1.  A duly authorized agent of the town will provide an affidavit regarding the existence or nonexistence of any and all written policies or procedures, formal or informal, for the handling and/or administration of claims of the former public works employees under Section 13.3 of the agreement by and between the Stratford Public Works Employees Association, Local #134 and the Town of Stratford, Connecticut dated September 15, 1994, and if any such written policies or procedures exist, a copy of any and all such written policies or procedures shall be attached to the affidavit.

 

            2.  The town will provide copies of any and all records pertaining to all persons who received benefits through the town pursuant to Section 13.3 of the agreement between the Stratford Public Works Employees Association, Local 134 and the Town of Stratford, CT dated September 15, 1994, including but not limited to:

 

a.  the names of such former employees who received benefits under Section 13.3 of the agreement;

 

b.  applications, evaluations, memoranda, notes, correspondence, approvals, minutes of meetings and conclusions of any examining doctors as to the eligibility of such claimants for such benefits and any other materials in the possession of the town concerning such claims, excluding therefrom residential addresses of the claimants, social security numbers of the claimants and medical information from such records other than set forth above.

 

            3.  The copies and the affidavit will be provided within three (3) weeks of the date of the notice of final decision of the Commission in this matter.

 

            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.

 

            2.  The Commission commends both parties for reaching a non-litigated settlement of this matter.

 

Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular meeting of

June 11, 2003.

 

 

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Dolores E. Tarnowski

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 T. Baldwin

Coles, Baldwin & Craft, LLC

1261 Post Road

P.O. Box 577

Fairfield, CT  06824

 

Town Clerk, Town of Stratford

c/o Thomas Galvin Cotter, Esq.

Joseph L. Rini, Esq.

Berchem, Moses & Devlin, PC

75 Broad Street

Milford, CT  06460

 

 

 

 

___________________________________

Dolores E. Tarnowski

Clerk of the Commission

 

 

FIC/2002-559FD/mes/06/17/2003