CITY GOVERNMENT OF SAN ANTONIO INDICATES IN WRITING THAT THERE WILL BE A MULTI-WEEK DELAY IN RESPONDING TO MY APRIL 6, 2020, PUBLIC-INFORMATION REQUEST FOCUSED ON THE SAN ANTONIO CITY ATTORNEY's OFFICE AND ME

From: City of San Antonio - Open Government
To: mcmillanj@att.net
Sent: Monday, April 6, 2020, 12:32:10 PM CDT
Subject: Open Records Request :: W313843-040620

Dear John McMillan:

COVID-19 NOTICE

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Governor of Texas declared a public health emergency and disaster and issued an Executive Order for people to "Stay Home" to mitigate the spread of the virus and protect the health and safety of Texans by limiting gathering and restricting work activities to those that are essential and support critical infrastructure. City of San Antonio administrative departments are closed to in-person contact. Many departments are on skeleton crews while remaining staff is working remotely or is present but involved directly in the public health or epidemic response. Too Few Employees have the access necessary to respond to public information requests at this time. Therefore in accordance with the guidance issued by the Office of the Texas Attorney General, this is not a "business day" for the purpose of Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code, the Public Information Act, and all PIA-related processes are currently paused. On the date that the City resumes "business days" under more normal operations, all previously received requests will resume processing and any requests submitted during the skeleton crew day period will be officially noted as being received and begin being processed.

This notice has been published on the City's website, and notification will be sent to each requester with pending or new requests. During the period this notice is posted, the City of San Antonio is not considered to be open for business for the purpose of time deadlines continued in the Texas Public Information Act.

The Office of the Attorney General has provided an update on the calculation of business days and COVID-19. Click HERE

Thank you for your interest in public records of the City of San Antonio. Your request has been received and is being processed in accordance with Chapter 552 of Texas Government Code, the Public Information Act. Your request was received in this office on 4/6/2020 and given the reference number W313843-040620 for tracking purposes.

Your request will be forwarded to the relevant City department(s) to locate the information you seek and to determine the volume and any costs associated with satisfying your request. You will be contacted about the availability and/or provided with copies of the records in question. PLEASE NOTE: The Texas Public Information Act does not require a governmental body to create new information, to do legal research, or to answer questions.

You can monitor the progress of your request at the link below and you'll receive an email when your request has been completed. Again, thank you for using the Open Records Center. http://www.sanantonio.gov/opengovernment

Thank you for using the Open Records Center,
City of San Antonio