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Five words public agencies are not supposed to need. Each one animated from Community Transit's own documents.
How it works
capture
/ˈkap-chər/ · nounWhen every email from or about one person, sent to any employee, goes to the IT manager first. Then a copy goes in the evidence folder.
Berman to Woods, July 10, 2025; Berman to De Tapia, June 5, 2025; 15 Barracuda copies in his mailbox, June 3 to 6. Produced under 25-123 and 25-168.How it works
nepotism
/ˈne-pə-ti-zəm/ · nounPaying the IT manager's husband $1,340,317.80 over ten years, then changing the payee's name halfway through.
Community Transit payment export, Request 25-197. Struck voids excluded.How it works
conflict of interest
/ˈkän-flikt/ · noun, two wordsA box he checked under penalty of perjury. A box he left blank. A memo she was already holding.
Form 7.02, RFP#2019-051, May 30, 2019; HR Memo of Direction, August 15, 2017. Request 25-197.Form 7.02 · Certification Regarding Conflict of Interest
✓The Vendor hereby certifies under penalty of perjury ... that ... performance of the services ... will not create any conflicts of interest
Phil Tapia
OR
Conflict applies to
Nature of conflict
Proposed remedy
HR · Memo of Direction · August 15, 2017
Neither you nor anyone under your oversight may have any involvement, directly or indirectly in the bid process or administration of any contract between Community Transit and Tapia Productions. … Such actions would violate State law and our policy and would be grounds for discharge.2 years earlier
Neither you nor anyone under your oversight may have any involvement, directly or indirectly in the bid process or administration of any contract between Community Transit and Tapia Productions. … Such actions would violate State law and our policy and would be grounds for discharge.2 years earlier
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transitory
/ˈtran-sə-tȯr-ē/ · adjectiveDescribes any record you were about to receive. Does not apply to records from 2015.
Berman, July 10, 2025; Woods, November 10, 2025 and December 22, 2025; retention policy export, 26-267 and 26-279.Teams chat, Berman ↔ De REQUESTED
Day 0
Identified June 16 as a responsive record.
Request 25-123 is open.
Policy "Teams Chat 30 Day Retain & Delete" created July 31.
We've deleted older messages due to your org's retention policy.
Emails from 2015 PAST RETENTION
2015-06-02 · RE: web consulting
2015-11-18 · Tapia Productions invoice
2016-03-09 · FW: sole source
"these happen to be past retention but documents we still had in our possession."
How it works
with counsel
/ˈkau̇n-səl/ · adverbHow a five-day letter gets written. Ask the lawyer whether to delay because of a protection order. Tell the requester it was volume.
Woods and Hendricks, June 12, 2025 (produced under 25-168); Woods to Henk, June 13, 2025.