FREEDOM OF INFORMATION COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT

In the Matter of a Complaint by

FINAL DECISION

Donald T. Hogan,

CIVIL PENALTY

 

Complainant

 

 

against

Docket #FIC 2000-286

Chairman, Building Committee, Plymouth
Public Schools,

 

 

Respondents

December 13, 2000

 

 

 

 

            A civil penalty hearing in the above-captioned matter was scheduled to be heard on October 18, 2000, at which time the complainant and the Town of Plymouth (who was granted intervenor status by the Hearing Officer in this matter) appeared and agreed to resolve the complaint without the need for a further hearing.  Specifically, counsel for the Town of Plymouth agreed to assist the complainant in ascertaining the balance in the Plymouth Center School Building Fund, and the complainant agreed to accept his assistance. 

           

            The following order by the Commission is hereby recommended on the basis of the record concerning the above-captioned complaint:

 

1.  The Commission strongly reprimands the respondent in this matter for his failure to attend any of the Commission’s proceedings in this case. 

 

            2.  In light of the agreement reached by the complainant and the Town of Plymouth, described above, the Commission in its discretion will not impose a civil penalty against the respondent in this matter.

 

 

Approved by Order of the Freedom of Information Commission at its regular meeting of December 13, 2000.

 

 

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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:

 

Donald T. Hogan

290 Harwinton Avenue

PO Box 13

Plymouth, CT   06782-0013

 

Chairman, Building Committee

Plymouth Public Schools

c/o William Allread

24 Makara Street

Terryville, CT   06786-6610

 

Town of Plymouth

c/o William A. Hamzy, Esq.

140 Farmington Avenue

Bristol, CT   06010

 

 

 

___________________________________

Dolores E. Tarnowski

Clerk of the Commission

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIC/2000-286/FD-CP/det/20001214