Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Borough Reply

A Community Committed to Tradition and Progress
Incorporated ~ 1815
BOROUGH OF KUTZTOWN
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www.kutztownboro.org

www.hometownutilicom.org

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45 Railroad Street * Kutztown, PA 19530-1112 * Phone: 610-683-6131 * Fax: 610-683-6729 * E-mail: admin@kutztownboro.org

Sewer
Service
Television

Gennaro Marino
409 W. Main Street
Kutztown, PA 19530

August 24, 2010


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Dear Mr. Marino:
Thank you for writing to the Borough of Kutztown with your request for information
pursuant to the Pennsylvania Right- To-Know law.
On August 12, 20 I 0 we received your attached list requesting information on the finances of the
Borough.
The following is a response to your information requested:
Hometown Utili com (HU) is a 'service mark' not a department or entries of the Borough.
The Borough does .have an annual audit preformed for all Borough operations and a copy
of this audit is available at the cost of$0.25 per copy. Please let me know if you would
like a copy. Payment will be required in advance of a copy being made at the cost of
about $12.00.
The Monthly Statii!i~~J~.ep0t1 is available for each month for the years of 2008 or 2009,
total cost of $6.00, at $O.~-S per copy. Please let me know if you would like the copies.
Again HU is a 'service mark' as noted in #1 above regarding your request for the total for
funds transferred or moved into HU from the Electric Fund for the years 2008 and 2009.
Again HU is a 'service mark' as noted in # 1 above regarding your request for the total for
funds transferred into HU from the General Fund for rent, services, interest or any other
purpose in the years 2008 and 2009.
Again HU is a 'service mark' not adepartment or enterprise. This information is not
available. .-'
Again HU is a 'service mark' not a department or enterprise. Regarding your reference
to the 'fiber optic line to the Berks Quarry', the Borough did install a fiber line leading to
the Berks Quarry and the total cost of that Baldy Street Project was $20,573.60, (of which
25%, or $5,143.40, of the noted amount was paid by Berks Products).
According to the Open Records Law, the request must not be in the form of a question
but in the form of requesting records. This item is not requesting a records but asking a
question.
According to the Open Records Law, the request must not be in the form of a question
but in the form of requesting records. This item is not requesting a record but asking a
question. However, the'$9.93 on the electric bill is a demand charge for a 3 KW base
minimum chargeresi~.9.IWalcommercial rate.
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Borough Manager

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