§ 2-718. Authority to establish and administer program; designation of records management officer.

The office of city clerk is authorized to establish and administer the records management program for the city, pursuant to legal, fiscal, administrative and archival requirements, and the city clerk is named records management officer. To this end the city clerk will implement but not be limited to a program to encompass such areas of records management as are required to preserve and keep in order all books, papers, documents, records and files of the city council and of the executive departments to achieve the following results:

(1)

Release space and reduce the need for storage and filing equipment;

(2)

Establish an efficient retrieval operation for both active and inactive municipal records;

(3)

Provide for routine disposition of paperwork;

(4)

Maintain total security over municipal records; and

(5)

Communicate the need for an effective records management program.

(Code 1967, § 2-8(b); Ord. No. 3702, § 1, 10-6-83; Ord. No. 5540, § 1, 5-24-90)