Ten months after hiring an outside consultant to review staffing in the city’s fire department, the Providence City Council is refusing to release the much-anticipated findings from the report.
Records reviewed by Eyewitness News show Massachusetts-based MMA Consulting Group was paid $37,600 on June 22, but the report remains in “draft form,” according to the city’s law department.
The solicitor’s office denied a public records request last Friday, citing a provision in state law that exempts “preliminary drafts, notes, impressions, memoranda, working papers, and work products” from being made public unless they have been submitted as documents in a public meeting.