Milford mayor again declines to release report

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January 9, 2009

[edit] Milford mayor again declines to release report

"Mayor James L. Richetelli Jr. declined for a second day to release a consultant's report on the operations of the city Building Inspection Department.

"Basically, I want to read it first," he said Thursday of the eagerly awaited report by L. Robert Kimball and Associates of Ebensburg, Pa. The $48,000 report was paid for by the Board of Aldermen, which is also waiting to see the document.

Thomas Hennick, public education officer for the state Freedom of Information Commission, said Richetelli's claim that the document is a "work product" does not seem to apply to the consultant's report.

"It would seem that the exemption for a draft might not fit," the state FOI official said. "I don't know exactly why he would claim that.""

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