[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Liverpool 3-14-1991 by L.L. No. 2-1991 (Ch. 29 of the 1987
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Public access to records — See Ch. 286.
There shall be a records management program established for
the Village of Liverpool and headed by a Records Management Officer
("RMO"), who shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Village.
The Officer will be responsible for administering the noncurrent and
archival public records and storage areas for the Village of Liverpool
in accordance with local, state and federal laws and guidelines.
The Officer shall have all the necessary powers to carry out
the efficient administration, determination of value, use, preservation,
storage and disposition of the noncurrent and archival public records
kept, filed or received by the offices and departments of the Village
of Liverpool.
A.Â
The Records Management Officer shall continually survey and examine
public records to recommend their classification so as to determine
the most suitable methods to be used for the maintaining, storing
and servicing of archival material:
(1)Â
Obsolete and unnecessary records according to New York State Records
Retention and Disposition Schedules thereby subject to disposition.
(2)Â
Information containing administrative, legal, fiscal, research, historical
or educational value which warrants its permanent retention.
(3)Â
Records not subject to disposition according to state law.
B.Â
The Officer shall establish guidelines for proper records management
in any department or agency of the Village of Liverpool in accordance
with local, state and federal laws and guidelines.
C.Â
The Officer shall report annually to the chief executive official
and the governing body on the powers and duties herein mentioned,
including but not limited to the cost/benefit ratio of programs effectuated
by the department.
D.Â
The Officer shall operate a records management center for the storage,
processing and servicing of all noncurrent and archival records for
all Village of Liverpool departments and agencies.
E.Â
The Officer shall establish a Village of Liverpool archives and perform
the following functions:
(1)Â
Advise and assist Village of Liverpool departments in reviewing and
selecting material to be transferred to the Village of Liverpool archives
for preservation.
(2)Â
Continually survey and examine public records to determine the most
suitable methods to be used for the creating, maintaining, storing
and servicing of archival materials.
(3)Â
Establish and maintain an adequate repository for the proper storage,
conservation, processing and servicing of archival records.
(4)Â
Promulgate rules governing public access to and use of records in
the archives, subject to the approval of the Records Advisory Board.
(5)Â
Develop a confidentiality policy for archival records designated
"confidential," provided that such policy does not conflict with any
federal or state statutes.
(6)Â
Provide information services to other Village of Liverpool offices.
(7)Â
Collect archival materials which are not official Village of Liverpool
records but which have associational value to the Village of Liverpool
or a close relationship to the existing archival collection. Such
collecting shall be subject to archive space, staff and cost limitations
and to the potential endangerment of such materials if they are not
collected by the archives.
(8)Â
Develop a procedure whereby historically important records are to
be identified at the point of generation.
There shall be a Records Advisory Board designated to work closely
with and provide advice to the Records Management Officer. The Board
shall be appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Village and shall
consist of five members. The Board shall meet periodically and have
the following duties:
A.Â
Provide advice to the Records Management Officer on the development
of the records management program.
B.Â
Review the performance of the program on an ongoing basis and propose
changes and improvements.
C.Â
Review retention periods proposed by the Records Management Officer
for records not covered by state archives' schedules.
D.Â
Provide advice on the appraisal of records for archival value and
to be the final sign-off entity as to what is or is not archival.
A.Â
A Village of Liverpool department is the legal custodian of its records
and shall retain custody of records deposited in the records center.
Records transferred to or acquired by the archives shall be under
the custody and control of the archives rather than the department
which created or held them immediately prior to being transferred
to the archives.
B.Â
Records shall be transferred to the archives upon the recommendation
of the RMO, with the approval of the head of the department which
has custody of the records and the approval of the Records Advisory
Board.
C.Â
Records may be permanently removed from the archives at the request
of the RMO or the head of the department which had custody of the
records immediately prior to the transfer of those records to the
archives, subject to the approval of the Records Advisory Board.
The Legal Department may take steps to recover local government
records which have been alienated from proper custody and may, when
necessary, institute actions of replevin.
No records shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of by a
department of the Village of Liverpool unless approval has been obtained
from the Records Management Officer. No records shall be destroyed
or otherwise disposed of by the Records Management Officer without
the express written consent of the department head having authority.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Those official records which have been determined by the
Officer and Advisory Board to have sufficient historical or other
value to warrant their continued preservation by the local government.
Any documents, books, papers, photographs, sound recordings,
microforms or any other materials, regardless of physical form or
characteristics, made or received pursuant to law or ordinance or
in connection with the transaction of official Village of Liverpool
business.
An establishment maintained by the Village of Liverpool primarily
for the storage, servicing, security and processing of records which
must be preserved for varying periods of time and need not be retained
in office equipment or space.
The removal by the Village of Liverpool, in accordance with
approved records control schedules, of records no longer necessary
for the conduct of business by such agency through removal methods
which may include:
The disposal of temporary records by destruction or donation;
The transfer of records to the records center/archives for temporary
storage of inactive records and permanent storage of records determined
to have historical or other sufficient value warranting continued
preservation; or
The transfer of records from one Village of Liverpool agency
to any other Village of Liverpool agency.
The planning, controlling, directing, organizing, training,
promotion and other managerial use and records disposition, including
records preservation, records disposal and records centers or other
storage facilities.
Making information in records available to any Village of
Liverpool agency for official use or to the public.
