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September 27, 2016

General Schedule Now Obsolete

County general schedule 1-25 Routine Activity Schedules will be removed from the website next week. As part of the General Schedule Update Project, we are gradually removing general schedules describing items which are not records according to GRAMA. This schedule is also too vague for use. Here is the schedule: Routine Activity Schedules (CO 1-25) These records are routine materials
September 1, 2016

Updating County Vehicle Maintenance General Schedule

County schedule 6-10 is being overwritten by state schedule 9-14. If you go to the county schedule on our website, it will be hyperlinked to the new schedule. Retention is now two years longer. Don’t worry if you have already destroyed records per the old schedule. Please update your records so the updated retention will be followed from this point
June 9, 2016

New County Petition General Schedule

No schedules will be presented to the State Records Committee today, but we anticipate the previously posted financial schedules and the following two county schedules will be presented July 7th. We are updating county schedule 14-32, but the retention will not change. We also propose adding a new schedule for the signature sheets related to petitions. If you have input
May 3, 2016

New Financial General Schedules

We’re going to try a new look to post general schedules on the blog. Instead of posting all of the schedule numbers, this post only has the new schedules, but each existing general schedule, with its retention, are attached if you want to review those. These schedules have been previously posted, therefore they have already been added to the State
April 19, 2016

New General Schedules for Your Input

As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing new financial schedules for your consideration. We would like to submit this schedule to the State Records Committee’s May 12th meeting. Remember, there is no designation or classification of general schedules because that needs to be determined by the record series. Schedule & Description Existing GRS
March 17, 2016

March SRC Retention Schedule Report

The eight previously posted general schedules were heard by the State Records Committee today and approved. Each of these general schedules were previously posted on this blog for your input. A county clerk schedule for voter registration was pulled for further discussion. We’ll post about that proposed general schedule at a later date. To hear the discussion regarding these schedules,
February 12, 2016

New General Schedules for Your Input

As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing a new schedule for your consideration. We would like to submit this schedule to the State Records Committee’s March 17th meeting. Remember, there is no designation or classification of general schedules because that needs to be determined by the record series. Schedule & Description Retention Existing
January 14, 2016

SRC Retention Schedule Report

Two proposed general retention schedules were heard by the State Records Committee today and approved. Each of these general schedules were previously posted on this blog for your input. To hear the discussion regarding these schedules, please go to the State Records Committee’s page on the Public Notice Website. All are welcome to attend the State Records Committee and provide
December 30, 2015

General Schedule for your Input

As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing a new schedule for your consideration. We would like to submit this schedule to the State Records Committee’s January 14th meeting. Remember, there is no designation or classification of general schedules because that needs to be determined by the record series. The retention states “10 years
December 10, 2015

SRC Retention Schedule Report

Five proposed general retention schedules were heard by the State Records Committee today and approved. Each of these general schedules were previously posted on this blog for your input. The Committee advised a standard that any unspecified retention using a general retention schedules with flexible retention default to the longest retention stated. To hear the discussion regarding these schedules, please