“I think we should strive to be a transparent government and not add guardrails to prevent people from accessing government,” he said during a December committee meeting.
Assistant City Clerk Christian Rummelhoff, who oversees records management for the city, told the council Tuesday that the records office workload has increased 10% annually, on average, since 2018, from 1,820 requests in 2018 to over 5,300 last year. Rummelhoff said the growth in records requests is unsustainable, even though staffing has increased from one person in 2015 to 14 last year.
The average time it takes to close a records request is 32 days, he said.
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