From: Larry Kelley [mailto:amherstac@aol.

com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 8:32 AM
To: McGinnis, Claire; Select Board
Subject: Pubic Info Request

Claire,
Can I please get the number of Town Hall Parking Permits (free passes for town
employees or elected or appointed town officials) that are currently in use?
Can I also get a top-ten list of people with outstanding parking tickets and/or fines
currently due the town.
Thanks,
Larry
From: Puppel, Debra <puppeld@amherstma.gov>
To: Larry Kelley <amherstac@aol.com>
Cc: Select Board <Selectboard@amherstma.gov>; McGinnis, Claire
<mcginnisc@amherstma.gov>
Sent: Thu, Apr 2, 2015 10:14 am
Subject: RE: Pubic Info Request

Good morning:
There are fourteen (14) Town Hall parking permits issued/in use.
In response to your public record request for the top 10 highest dollar value
offenders in unpaid parking tickets, we have prepared an estimate of time and
expense as follows:
Extract unpaid from central database: 1 hour
Sort and sum in spreadsheet: 1 hour
Report and cover note: 0.5 hours
$0.50 per page: n/a electronic
Total 2.5 hours

Wage of lowest paid person. 40.00

Estimate $100.00
Due to the Massachusetts Driver Protection Policy Act, the Treasurer/
Collector is prohibited from sharing name and address information related the
driver and vehicle registrations. Thus the information which will be shared in
this case will be sorted and summed by Registration (aka License Plate). If
the request seeks to understand amounts, there is no problem, but actual who
owes those amounts will not be provided.

Regards,
Debra A. Puppel, Assistant to the Town Manager
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 11:22 AM
To: Puppel, Debra
Cc: Select Board; McGinnis, Claire
Subject: Re: Pubic Info Request

Hey Debra,
A little surprised in this day and age it would take that long to extract the
information, but I'll take your word for it.
I'll drop a check off before noon. I think the 10 days is up tomorrow, so I would
appreciate it if you stick to that time schedule rather than restarting the ten day
clock from noon today.
Larry

Good afternoon Larry:

We have received your payment for public records. My response to you also
confirms to the custodian of the records that you have made payment and
request that s/he proceed with compilation and copies.
There is no time limitation of which I am aware for production of documents

requested. I believe the ten days is relative to a request to your inquiry.

However, I can assure you we will produce the records requested without
unreasonable delay.
Regards,
Debra A. Puppel
Assistant to the Town Manager
Answers to questions in the text.
Claire
Treasurer/Collector
Town of Amherst
4 Boltwood Ave
Amherst, MA 01002
413-259-3020 ph
413-259-2401 fax

From: Larry Kelley [mailto:amherstac@aol.com]

Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 11:44 AM
To: McGinnis, Claire
Cc: Puppel, Debra; Pooler, Sandy
Subject: Re: Pubic Info Request - highest unpaid parking ticket balances
-----Original Message----From: McGinnis, Claire <mcginnisc@amherstma.gov>
To: Larry Kelley <amherstac@aol.com>
Cc: Puppel, Debra <puppeld@amherstma.gov>; Pooler, Sandy
<poolers@amherstma.gov>
Sent: Fri, Apr 3, 2015 11:24 am
Subject: FW: Pubic Info Request - highest unpaid parking ticket balances

Row Labels
MA-947CF1 - P-A
MA-725TD4 - P-A
MA-2GNP50 - P-A
MA-267VY9 - P-A
MA-2DH718 - P-A
MA-168PZ7 - P-A
MA-3AHX80 - P-A
MA-RT39NY - P-A
MA-96HD69 - P-A
MA-4133XE - P-A

Sum of Unpaid
Principal
$
18,330.00
$
1,620.00
$
1,470.00
$
1,150.00
$
1,110.00
$
1,090.00
$
1,074.00
$
985.00
$
965.00
$
905.00

top 10

Above are the subtotals by plate, for the highest 10 balances in our database
of unpaid parking tickets. The data span is FY10 through FY15 year-to-date,
or 7/1/2009 through 4/1/15.

Claire McGinnis
Treasurer/Collector

Claire (or whoever might know)

So if one of these vehicles shows up today in town center I'm assuming you can
boot them on sight, even if they are legally parked with time left on the meter.
Yes, we could. Our boot practice however is to stick to out of state plates, with
extremely rare exceptions.
But what if the owner (and apparently you know all their names) buys another car
with a different plate.

Owners cannot renew when they are on record with the RMV. Both license
and registration get marked for non-renew status, so pulling a new plate
should not succeed in dodging the balances on the old.
Can you boot that in order to get them to pay off the balance owed on one of
these back due bills?
To clarify, could we boot a paid in full plate if registered to the same person that
has another plate with past due balances? I would have to deal with this on a
case by case basis.

Claire