FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

FINAL DECISION
Docket #FIC 1997-051
September 10, 1997

In the Matter of a Complaint by Joan Coe, Complainant
against
David Holden, Business Manager, Board of Education, Town of Simsbury, Respondent

The above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard as a contested case on July 30, 1997, at which time the complainant and the respondent appeared in order to present testimony and argument on the complaint.

At an informal conference during the July 30, 1997 hearing, the complainant and the respondent reached the terms of an agreement in resolution of this contested case, wherein the respondent will provide the complainant, for her inspection at a given time, records she requests in increments equal to the contents of a complete drawer. Such inspections will be set up and conducted in a room separate from, but near to, the accounts payable office where the records are permanently maintained. Based upon this agreement, the complainant informed the Commission that she wished to withdraw her complaint.

The Commission warmly commends both the complainant and the respondent 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 regular meeting of September 10, 1997.

_________________________
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:
Joan Coe
26 Whitcomb Drive
Simsbury, CT 06070

David Holden, Business Manager, Board of Education, Town of Simsbury
c/o Thomas Sullivan
Sullivan, Schoen, Campane & Connon, LLC
646 Prospect Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105-4286

__________________________
Doris V. Luetjen
Acting Clerk of the Commission
FIC1997-051/tcg/09101997