196.2004
RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT FOR ELIMINATION OF SUNSET
PROVISIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT
IMPROVEMENT FUND (LGRMIF) AND
CULTURAL EDUCATION FUND (CEF)
RESOLUTION NO: 196, 2004
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Daniel Stec
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Tim Brewer
WHEREAS, the Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund (LGRMIF) was
created in 1989 to provide technical assistance and grants to establish, improve or enhance records
management programs in New York’s more than 4300 local governments, and
WHEREAS, the closely related Documentary Heritage Program (DHP) for grants and
technical assistance to non-governmental historical records repositories also is supported by the
LGRMIF, and
WHEREAS, a sunset date for the LGRMIF was established in the original legislation to permit
its operation as a five-year experiment, and
WHEREAS, the New York State Legislature twice has extended the sunset date, most
recently to December 31, 2005, and
WHEREAS, the LGRMIF has effectively supported essential advisory services and 6,300
grants totaling over $113 million to improve the management of records for over half of all NYS local
governments, and
WHEREAS, the LGRMIF and the programs it supports continue to operate at a high standard
of excellence and provide direct and significant benefit to local governments at no cost to the
taxpayers, and
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury has benefited from technical assistance, training,
publications and grants supported by the LGRMIF, and
WHEREAS, the State Legislature created the closely-related Cultural Education Fund (CEF)
to support the New York State Archives, New York State Library and New York State Museum on
behalf of all New Yorkers and the Office for Public Broadcasting and provided the CEF with an
identical sunset date, and
WHEREAS, the LGRMIF and the CEF continue to be critically important in the fulfillment of
the many records and information related responsibilities of the Town of Queensbury and to the
cultural and scientific needs of the people of New York State,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Queensbury Town Board hereby supports the elimination of such sunset
provisions in order to make the Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund
(LGRMIF) and the Cultural Education Fund (CEF) permanent, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board further authorizes and directs the Town Clerk to forward a
certified copy of this Resolution to the Warren County Clerk and take such other and further action as
may be necessary to effectuate the terms of this Resolution.
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Duly adopted this 5 day of April, 2004, by the following vote:
AYES : Mr. Brewer, Mr. Stec, Mr. Boor, Mr. Turner, Mr. Strough
NOES : None
ABSENT: None