RECORDS
MANAGEMENT POLICY
Village of Nashville
County of Barry, Michigan
Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Village
Council of the Village of Nashville, County of Barry, State of Michigan, held in the Village Hall in said Village on February
24, 2005 at 7:00 p.m. prevailing Eastern Time.
PRESENT:
Council Members: Bracy, Kenyon, Coll, Seaton, Dunham
ABSENT: Council Members: Coll, one open seat
The following preamble and Resolution were offered by Council
Member Bracy and seconded by Council Member Kenyon.
WHEREAS, 1913 PA 271, Section 5(2), as amended, that being MCL 399.5(2),
provides “a record that is required to be kept by a public officer in the discharge of duties imposed by law, that is
required to be filed in a public place, or that is a memorial of a transaction of a public officer made in the discharge of
a duty is the property of this state and shall not be disposed of, mutilated, or destroyed except as provided by law”
WHEREAS,
The Michigan Municipal League, the State Administrative Board, the Michigan Historical Center and the Michigan Treasury
Department, Local Audit and Finance Division, have approved a records retention and disposal schedule to be used by Michigan’s
City and Village offices for the disposition of their usual records, a copy of which is attached hereto and made a part hereof.
NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED That the Village Council of the Village of Nashville adopts by reference the General Records Retention and
Disposal Schedule #8 in its entirety.
AYES: Council
Members: Bracy, Kenyon, Coll, Seaton, Dunham
NAYES: Council Members:
none
RESOLUTION DECLARED
ADOPTED
RECORDS
MANAGEMENT POLICY
GENERAL SCHEDULE #1
Village of Nashville
Non-Record Material Defined
The following specific types of materials
are designated as “non-record” and may be disposed of at the convenience of the local public official having jurisdiction
over it without complying with the disposal procedures required under Section 399.5 MCL (1948), as amended by Public act 68
(1959):
- Extra copies of correspondence and other documents preserved only for convenience of reference:
a. “Reading
file,” “Tickler file,” “Suspense file,” “Follow up file,” etc.
- Identical copies of all documents maintained in the same office.
- Outdated copies of printed or processed
materials of which official copies have been retained for record purposes.
- All blank forms, books, etc., which
are outdated.
- Materials neither made nor received in pursuance of statutory requirements nor in connection with the functional
responsibilities of the office:
- Privately purchased material kept at the office for
convenience.
- Correspondence of a personal nature kept at the office for convenience.
- Notices of employee meetings, community affairs,
etc.
- Preliminary drafts of letters, reports, and memoranda which do not represent significant basic steps in preparation
of record documents.
- Shorthand notes and mechanical recordings which have been transcribed.
- Routing
and other inter-departmental forms which do not add any significant material to the activity concerned.
- Stocks
of publications and processed documents preserved for supply proposed only.
Note: All other materials either created or received in pursuance of statutory requirements
or in connection with the transaction of public business belong to the office concerned and are government property and not
the personal property of the officer or employees concerned.
Therefore, any material not included in the above definition cannot be destroyed, given or taken away, or sold without
complying with all statutory requirements specifically relating to the record and/or with the provisions of Section 399.5
MCL (1948), as amended by Public Act 69 (1959).