FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

FINAL DECISION
Docket #FIC 1996-591
July 30, 1997

In the Matter of a Complaint by Alfred Deans, Complainant
against
Robert Johnson, Chairman, Durham Middlefield Interlocal Agreement Advisory Board; Robert Bascom; John O’Hara; Mike Timbro; Richard Eriksen; Patrick DiNatale; Henry Robinson, as members of the Durham Middlefield Interlocal Agreement Advisory Board; and Durham Middlefield Interlocal Agreement Advisory Board, Respondents

The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on April 24, 1997, at which time the complainant and the respondents appeared in order to present testimony and argument on the complaint. During an informal conference immediately before the April 24, 1997 hearing, the complainant and the respondent reached the general terms of an agreement in resolution of this contested case. On May 29, 1997, the complainant informed the Commission that he wished to withdraw his complaint.

The Commission warmly commends both the complainant and the respondents for working successfully to negotiate a non-litigated settlement of their earlier differences.

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.

Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its special meeting of July 30, 1997.

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__________________________
Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission

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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:
Alfred Deans
P. O. Box 92
Middlefield, CT. 06455

Robert Johnson, Chairman, Durham Middlefield Interlocal Agreement Advisory Board; Robert Bascom; John O’Hara; Mike Timbro; Richard Eriksen; Patrick DiNatale; Henry Robinson, as members of the Durham Middlefield Interlocal Agreement Advisory Board; and Durham Middlefield Interlocal Agreement Advisory Board
c/o Vincent T. McManus, Jr., Esq.
116 South Main Street
Wallingford, CT. 06492

__________________________
Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission
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