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Regular City Council Meeting AND Board of Adjustments and Appeals Monday,July 23,2012 Page 20 would need to delete spam as applicable. However, Councilmember Pust opined that this small dilemma did not negate being involved with your local government and civicly engaged. Councilmember Pust admitted that this had created a bump in the road; and was not communicated as well as it should have been before responding to the data request; however, Councilmember Pust not- ed that there was nothing wrong with the request, but there should have been a process in place to let citizens and the City Council be made aware in a more timely manner of what was occurring. Regarding concerns raised by Ms. White, Mayor Roe questioned the City Attor- ney on whether personal banking and/or utility billing information was consid- ered public data. City Attorney Gaughan assured the public and City Council that personal finan- cial records were not considered public data, they were private. City Attorney Gaughan was unsure on what portion of a utility bill was considered public (e.g. usage, address). At the request of Mayor Roe as to whether there were any limits to data requests or the sale of that data by a third party, City Attorney Gaughan nega- tively, that public data is public data, and it could not be dis osed with any re- strictions placed upon it. Y Discussion ensued regarding remedies in the future through lobbying the legis- lature based on current electronic data issues; how staff defined the dollar or the formula used to determine staff time in providing the infor- mation; and requesting additional information from City Manager Malinen on how many e-mail addresses were provided for this specific request. Public Ms. White questioned what prohibitteednMr. Berglund from distribthe in- formation; and City Attorney Gaughan responded that there were uno prohibi- tions, that it was public information. Matthew Snyder, 2201 Draper Avenue Responding to Mayor Roe's mention of limiting data, and from his experience in working with that in the past, Mr. Snyder suggested that it may be worth- while to consider if other limitations could be made for public data, referencing other state models that differed from the State of MN. Mr. Snyder questioned if there were any City systems requiring e-mails to function (e.g. sign up for Park and Recreation classes or programs), and if so, suggested Mr. Snyder questioned if the City purchased that those be re- lists that would result in that data becoming hased data from any third party parties may then not be interested in working with the City,suggested that those