The Information and Privacy Commissioner is asking the Resort Village of Candle Lake to redo a search for records that relates to a janitorial contract that one of its Councillors has entered into with the Village.
Commissioner Ronald Kruzeniski in his report says the Village provided one page of redacted information to the record.
“The Village indicated that it is a payment made to an individual for a personal matter. The Village also reported that this is a regular payment that has been made monthly for about two years,” Kruzeniski’s reported explained.
“The Village identified this record because one of the payments on the list was made to the Assistant Administrator who was fulfilling the Councillor’s duties as described in the contract. The other payments are not relevant to the request. The Village severed this particular payment only because it believed it was third party information.”
Kruzeniski noted that the Village asked the freedom of information request applicant to go to the Village website to find more information on the janitorial contract, but no links to the relevant information was provided.
The Village asked Kruzeniski to dismiss the application claiming to be frivolous or vexatious.
Kruzeniski declined to dismiss the information request.
Kruzeniski found the Village did not respond to the FOI request in a responsive or appropriate manner. He has given the Village until this week to comply with his order.
(Photo: Sask. Information and Privacy Commissioner Ronald Kruzeniski. Credit: Office of the Sask. Information and Privacy Commissioner website.)