I had submitted a thorough request to the Township under the Open Public Records Act on September 27 requesting, among other documents, all records regarding the September 20, 2017 meeting (which was closed to the public) with the interested developers where they could ask questions about the proposed development on 200 Hartford Road in response to the Request For Qualifications that the Township issued on or about September 6. I also requested all PUBLIC pleadings and documents from the lawsuit that has been pending in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County, since 2015. The response I received on Oct. 6 contained absolutely no substantive information. In response to my request for all records, the Township essentially gave me nothing substantive and asked for 21 more days to provide documents that are already publicly filed with the Court and should be easily obtained within the 11 days since I made by original OPRA request. For instance, in response to my request for all documents about the documents regarding the Sept. 20 meeting and the plans that form the basis of the RFQ, the Township sent me two pages with typed questions and answers that specifically refer to another document that would likely contain a great deal of information as to what the Mayor and Council have planned for 200 Hartford Road. One of the questions and answers refers to "signage" on the development and refers to the development in question. But, the Township failed to provide me with the document that the question is based upon. In other words, the developer who asked the question clearly had some material at its disposal about the proposed development based on information provided by the Township to the developer as part of the Request for Qualifications. But, the Township did not give us the information. Another example from the documents provided to me by the Township is as follows. This is cut and pasted from the response: Q: Can the Township provide a template for items 11 and 12 of the submission requirements? A: Yes, these documents are enclosed herein. But, the Township did not provide me with either the original submission requirements (which is the basis of the question from the developer) or the documents the Township provided in response to the question. Next, in response to my request for all publicly-filed documents with the Superior Court regarding the litigation, including the lawsuit and various filed Motions, the Township's response is that these documents are too voluminous and the Township needs until Oct. 27 to respond. First, this seems disingenuous since I know the law firm (an excellent firm with many resources) representing the Township in this litigation and knowing how large law firms function, they would have ALL of the documents on their server in .pdf format and could easily send those to the Township in response to my request. Second, I noticed that the Township is going to send me the docs on Oct. 27, which is after the next Township Council meeting on Oct. 23. This will deprive us of the ability to analyze the documents and have more legitimate questions for the Mayor and Council. As a result of this, although I have been giving the Mayor and Council the "benefit of the doubt" and we have been politely requesting transparency from them on this issue, I am extremely disappointed in this approach and lack of any transparency by the Mayor and Council on this issue. I am beginning to wonder if the development they are proposing on 200 Hartford Road is what I would consider the "worst possible option", and hence the continued lack of transparency by the Mayor and Council. My view of the worst case scenario is that the Mayor and Council are considering donating a prime piece of real estate at 200 Hartford to a "non-profit group" for a high-density low-income development of rental unit apartments (with anywhere from 100-200 units) that will send 200-500 new students into the Moorestown School District all the while paying NO property/school taxes because the project is run and operated by a non-profit company. I hold out some hope that this is not the case. But, frankly, given the Township's lack of responses to the OPRA request, I think this is what may be going on. I will follow up with another OPRA request today for even more specific documentation. If the Mayor and Council will not be open with their constituents/residents over this important issue, then we will have to be more forceful in our requests. And, please know that the Mayor and Council are copied on these updates. We have nothing to hide. All we want are answers to these important questions. Hopefully, everyone agrees. Thank you.