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A. The following records are public:

1. Laws and ordinances;

2. Names, gender, gross compensation, job titles, job descriptions, business addresses, business telephone numbers, number of hours worked per pay period, dates of employment, and relevant education, previous employment, and similar job qualification of the City’s former and present employees and officers excluding undercover law enforcement personnel or investigative personnel if disclosure could reasonably be expected to impair the effectiveness of investigations or endanger any individual’s safety;

3. Final opinions, including concurring and dissenting opinions, and orders that are made by the City in an administrative, adjudicative or judicial proceeding except that if the proceedings were properly closed to the public, the opinion and order may be withheld to the extent that they obtain information that is private, protected, or controlled;

4. Final interpretation of statutes or rules by the City unless classified as protected as provided in Section 2.64.120 15, 16 and 17

5. Information contained in or compiled from a transcript, minutes, or report of the open portion of a meeting of the City including the records of all votes of each member of the City Council;

6. Judicial records unless a court orders the records to be restricted under the rules of civil or criminal procedure or unless the records are private under this chapter;

7. Records filed with or maintained by county recorders, clerks, treasurers, surveyors, zoning commissions, the Division of State Lands and Forestry, the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining, the Division of Water Rights, or other governmental entities that give public notice of:

a. Titles or encumbrances to real property;

b. Restrictions on the use of real property;

c. The capacity of persons to take or convey title to real property, or

d. Tax status for real and personal property;

8. Records of the Department of Commerce that evidence incorporations, mergers, name changes, and uniform commercial code filings;

9. Data on individuals that would otherwise be private under this chapter if the individual who is the subject of the record has given the City written permission to make the records available to the public;

10. Documentation of the compensation that the City pays to a contractor or private provider; and

11. Summary data.

B. The following records are normally public, but to the extent that a record is expressly exempt from disclosure, access may be restricted under Section 2.64.040 C2 or Sections 2.64.100 through 2.64.120.

1. Administrative staff manuals, instructions to staff, and statements of policy;

2. Records documenting a contractor’s or private provider’s compliance with the terms of a contract with the City;

3. Records documenting the services provided by a contractor or a private provider to the extent the records would be public if prepared by the City;

4. Contracts entered into by the City;

5. Any account, voucher, or contract that deals with the receipt or expenditure of funds by the City;

6. Records relating to governmental assistance or incentives publicly disclosed, contracted for, or given by the City, encouraging a person to expand or relocate a business in Utah, except as provided in Subsection 63-2-304(34) of the Utah Code;

7. Chronological logs and initial contact reports;

8. Correspondence by and with the City in which the City determines or states an opinion upon the rights of the state, a political subdivision, the public, or any person;

9. Empirical data contained in drafts if:

a. The empirical data is not reasonably available to the requester elsewhere in similar form, and

b. The City is given a reasonable opportunity to correct any errors or make nonsubstantive changes before release;

10. Drafts that are circulated to anyone other than the City, state or to anyone other than a federal agency if the City, state or federal agency are jointly responsible for implementation of a program or project that has been legislatively approved;

11. Drafts that have never been finalized but were relied upon by the City in carrying out action or policy;

12. Original data in a computer program if the City chooses not to disclose the program;

13. Arrest warrants after issuance, except that, for good cause, a court may order restricted access to arrest warrants prior to service;

14. Search warrants after execution and filing of the return, except that a court, for good cause, may order restricted access to search warrants prior to trial;

15. Records that would disclose information relating to formal charges or disciplinary actions against a past or present city employee if:

a. The disciplinary action has been completed and all time periods for administrative appeal have expired; and

b. The formal charges were sustained;

16. Records maintained by the Division of State Lands and Forestry or the Division of Oil, Gas and Mining that evidence mineral production on government lands;

17. Final audit reports;

18. Occupational and professional licenses;

19. Business licenses; and

20. A notice of violation, a notice of agency action under Section 63-46b-3 of the Utah Code, or similar records used to initiate proceedings for discipline or sanctions against persons regulated by the City, but not including records that initiate employee discipline.

C. The list of public records in this section is not exhaustive and should not be used to limit accesses to records. (Ord. 93-18 § 9, 1993)