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Municipal Records Committee and Selectmen set minutes retention policy, begin townwide records inventory
Summary
The municipal records committee led a broad discussion with the Selectmen on complying with RSA 33-A, archiving nonpublic minutes, establishing a retention/inventory process for departmental records and set a policy to keep public binder copies of meeting minutes for two years plus the current year.
The Municipal Records Committee and the Board of Selectmen met in joint session to review how Brookfield will implement record-retention requirements under RSA 33-A and to set local procedures for archiving and inventorying town records.
Committee members explained RSA 33-A is the state guideline for retention and disposition of municipal records and that each department must review its files against the RSA schedule. The committee flagged several practical issues discovered while reviewing town holdings: originals of released nonpublic minutes were being kept on an open shelf…
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