Editor’s Note: Sunshine Request makes no claim as to the veracity of any statements or information contained in any of the requests, or public records, we receive.
Editor’s Note 01/09/23: The submission above has been marked as “Completed”. As written, it is unclear what specific information the sender hopes to receive. We’d ask that the sender please revise and submit a new request, clearly indicating specific date ranges and any other specific details about the exact public records that are being requested.
Additionally — Please note. On December 19th, we completed a request for City of Eden, NC Government: All current employees, salaries, and “rates of pay”. As of present day.
We do not know whether the City of Eden already has a public data dashboard with salary info, and/or if their salary info is proactively being made public online.
We are happy to continue to send in records requests on the sender’s behalf to obtain updated salary info. However, if the sender plans to request updated employee salaries on a monthly or semi-regular basis, we would also recommend they try getting in touch with the City, and ask them to consider posting that type of info on their website (or on an open data dashboard), on a recurring basis – As it is in the public interest. Perhaps something similar to what the City of Asheville, NC uses:
https://data-avl.opendata.arcgis.com/
https://data-avl.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/4d96bf8fbad640edbe124fe7185ba670_0/explore
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