2. Labor Cost to Locate:
This is the cost of labor directly associated with the necessary searching for, locating, and examining public
records in conjunction with receiving and fulfilling a granted written request. This fee is being charged
because failure to do so will result in unreasonably high costs to the county that are excessive and
beyond the normal or usual amount for those services compared to the county’s usual FOIA requests,
because of the nature of the request in this particular instance, specifically:________________
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The county will not charge more than the hourly wage of its lowest-paid employee capable of searching for,
locating, and examining the public records in this particular instance, regardless of whether that person is
available or who actually performs the labor.
These costs will be estimated and charged in 15-minute time increments; all partial time increments must be
rounded down. If the number of minutes is less than 15, there is no charge.
Hourly Wage Charged: $________ Charge per increment: $_________
OR
Hourly Wage with Fringe Benefit Cost: $________ OR
Multiply the hourly wage by the percentage multiplier: ______%
(up to 50% of the hourly wage) and add to the
hourly wage for a total per hour rate. Charge per increment: $_________
Overtime rate charged as stipulated by Requestor (overtime is not used to calculate the fringe benefit cost)
3a. Employee Labor Cost for Separating Exempt from Non-Exempt (Redacting):
(Fill this out if using a county employee. If contracted, use No. 3b instead).
The county will not charge for labor directly associated with redaction if it knows or has reason to know that it
previously redacted the record in question and still has the redacted version in its possession.
This fee is being charged because failure to do so will result in unreasonably high costs to the county
that are excessive and beyond the normal or usual amount for those services compared to the county’s
usual FOIA requests, because of the nature of the request in this particular instance,
specifically:_______________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________
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This is the cost of labor of a county employee, including necessary review, directly associated with separating
and deleting exempt from nonexempt information. This shall not be more than the hourly wage of the county’s
lowest-paid employee capable of separating and deleting exempt from nonexempt information in this particular
instance, regardless of whether that person is available or who actually performs the labor.
These costs will be estimated and charged in 15-minute time increments; all partial time increments must be
rounded down. If the number of minutes is less than 15, there is no charge.
Hourly Wage Charged: $________ Charge per increment: $_________
OR
Hourly Wage with Fringe Benefit Cost: $________ OR
Multiply the hourly wage by the percentage multiplier: ____%
(up to 50% of the hourly wage) and add to the
hourly wage for a total per hour rate. Charge per increment: $_________
Overtime rate charged as stipulated by Requestor (overtime is not used to calculate the fringe benefit cost)