The long awaited "Handbook" is here for residents to review in draft form. The draft has been posted here on our web site for the past 6 months to provide district residents the opportunity to comment on it's content and offer suggestions on ways to improve it. As many of you know, this project has been in the works for well over 2 years. The ad hoc Rules Committee worked on it for over a year and then turned it over to the standing Rules Committee for completion. Beside our Commissioners, there were a number of residents who contributed to this effort at various times. Jenny and Danny Harris have remained as contributors from the very beginning to it's completion! Thank you to everyone involved.

 

We have scheduled a Rules Committee meeting for June 23, 2012 at 10:00AM in the Rushford Town Hall to provide residents with an opportunity to provide comments, prior to its adoption by the Board of Commissioners. If you know of any resident that does not access the internet, please let them know a hard copy of the guide is available at our district office.

Final audit reports are public documents available to anyone requesting them, although they are provided to the audited municipality before they are publicly distributed. Most final reports are provided to media representatives, some with accompanying press releases. The formal response to our audit findings filed by local officials is included as an appendix to the final audit report. Our action plan to correct deficiencies noted in the report has now been posted on this web site.

Our grant application to the NY State Archives, approved last November, has been completed well in advance of our June 2012 deadline.

 

We requested funding to inventory our records and organize them in conformance with NYS Archives format. Also included in our request was funding for approved records containers and shelving. Most of the storage containers and shelving we had did not meet their standards.

 

The amount of funding we received was $3,540 with $2,100 for support staff salaries and $1,440 for supplies and materials. There was no need for additional hiring. Donna Weir, our Secretary, and Sara Decker, our back-up secretary, worked together to complete the project.

 

Donna Weir and Doug Crandall, our Chairman, prepared and submitted our grant application with approval from the RLRD Board of Commissioners earlier last year.