RECORDS RETENTION AND DISPOSITION

RESOLVED by the Board of Trustees of the Center Moriches Free Public Library that New York State Education Department Records Retention and Disposition Schedule LGS-1 issued pursuant to Article 57-A of the Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, and containing legal minimum retention periods for local government records, including any future revisions and re-issuances thereof, is hereby adopted for use by the Center Moriches Free Public Library in legally disposing of valueless records listed therein. 

FURTHER RESOLVED, that in accordance with Article 57-A: 

(a) those records that are described in New York State Education Department Records Retention and Disposition Schedule LGS-1 may only be dispersed of after they have met the minimum retention periods described therein; 

(b) only those records that do not have sufficient administrative, fiscal, legal, or historical value to merit retention beyond established legal minimum periods may be disposed of.

Approved by the Board of Trustees on 11/16/2020