Good afternoon Mr. Tokarski,
My name is xxx, I will be facilitating the response to your request for records from Jefferson County Public Health under the Colorado open records law. Based on department policy, we charge $25.00 per hour to search, review, and provide records under the Open Records Act, with the first hour being of no charge. The Colorado open records law does not require us to create documents that we do not have in our possession. Because requests #1, #5, and #6 would require us to develop documents or studies, we are unable to fulfill those. Request #2, #3, and #4 are primarily based on existing evidence that can be found in numerous publicly accessible sources for free. However, if you would like us to collect those studies for you, based on similar requests, I estimate that it will take approximately 24 hours of staff time to do so. With the first hour being of no charge, the total cost would be $575.00. This is simply an estimate and could increase or decrease slightly once we begin the process of going through the documents.
This will take a while to complete because many of our staff are working very long days to protect their community from this disease. We should be able to have this completed by December 4th, but this too is just an estimate.
Please let me know if you would like to proceed with this request and I will begin the process.
Thank you.
XXXXXXX
Official Title
Jefferson County Public Health
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