209.99
RESOLUTION SUPPORTING ELIMINATION OF SUNSET PROVISION OF
LOCAL GOVERNMENT RECORDS MANAGEMENT
IMPROVEMENT FUND
RESOLUTION NO.: 209.99
INTRODUCED BY: Mr. Douglas Irish
WHO MOVED ITS ADOPTION
SECONDED BY: Mr. Theodore Turner
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 4,300 local governments, 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 LGRMIF operated successfully and supported essential grants projects to
improve the management of records and information in local governments, and
WHEREAS, the New York State Legislature in 1995 extended the sunset date to December
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31, 2000, and
WHEREAS, the LGRMIF and the programs it supports continue to operate at a high standard
of excellence and provide direct and significant benefits to local communities, and
WHEREAS, the Town of Queensbury has realized tangible benefits from the services and
grants supported by the LGRMIF, and
WHEREAS, the LGRMIF continues to be critically important in the fulfillment of the many
records and information related responsibilities of our local government,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby supports the
elimination of the sunset provision in order to make the Local Government Records Management
Improvement Fund permanent, and
BE IT FURTHER,
RESOLVED, that the Town Board of the Town of Queensbury hereby authorizes and directs
the Town Clerk to take such other and such further action as may be necessary to effectuate the terms
of this Resolution.
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Duly adopted this 21 day of June, 1999, by the following vote:
AYES: Mr. Merrill, Mr. Champagne, Mr. Turner
NOES: Mr. Irish, Mr. Tucker
ABSENT:None