Decision SPR24/0299

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
William Francis Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth
Public Records Division
Rebecca S. Murray 
Supervisor of Records 
One Ashburton Place, Room 1719, Boston, Massachusetts 02108 • (617) 727-2832• Fax: (617) 727-5914
sec.state.ma.us/pre • pre@sec.state.ma.us 
February 15, 2024 
SPR24/0299; SPR24/0300; SPR24/0301 
Denise Quist 
Town Clerk 
Town of Winthrop 
Winthrop Town Hall 
One Metcalf Square 
Winthrop, MA 02152 
Dear Ms. Quist: 
I have received the petitions of Diane Viens appealing the nonresponses of the Town of
Winthrop (Town) to requests for public records. See G. L. c. 66, § 10A; see also 950 C.M.R.
32.08(1). In separate requests on January 2, 2024; January 1, 2024 and January 12, 2024
respectively, Ms. Viens requested the following records: 
SPR24/0299 
…any/all documentation, details, communications around, and contact information
(along with dates of communications) with developers who have been contacted, 
or have communicated/contacted the Town in any way (including by way of reply) 
with respect to any/all active/current, recent (within the last 4 years), and future (within
the next 3 years) RFPs or RFIs in any/all parts of Winthrop, including but not limited to
any RFPs or RFIs involving the old middle school building, any abutting property to
Ingleside Park, any property within/abutting/near Metcalf Square or French Square. 
SPR24/0300 
[W]ith respect any/all the Executive Sessions conducted by the Winthrop Town 
Council between 1/1/2022-12/31/2022 please provide: 1) Any/all communications
between the Town [and] [an identified individual] and other councilor) and the 
Town lawyer(s) stating that the Town lawyer(s) had reviewed the proposed reason 
for executive session and approved moving forward with executive session, and 
2) The minutes of all executive sessions held by the Winthrop Town Council in 2022. 
Denise Quist SPR24/0299; SPR24/0300; SPR24/0301
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February 15, 2024 
SPR24/0301 
[L]etter from the Board of Health delivered to the Planning Board during the 2021 
or 2022 Planning Board Hearings for 40R Banks Street. Note: this is not the 2024 l 
letter. This is the 2021 or 2022 letter. If there's more than one letter in those years, 
please provide both. 
Claiming to not yet have received responsive records, Ms. Viens petitioned this office
and the following appeals, SPR24/0299, SPR24/0300 and SPR24/0301 were opened as a result. 
Subsequently, I learned that the Town provided Ms. Viens with responses dated January
31, 2024. Where the appeals were opened as a result of the Town’s lack of written responses, I
will now consider these administrative appeals closed. Ms. Viens may appeal the substantive
nature of the Town’s January 31 st responses within ninety (90) days. See 950 C.M.R. 32.08(1). 
Sincerely, 
Manza Arthur 
Supervisor of Records 
cc: Diane Viens