Personnel File Bucketing

The Personnel File: Retention & Best Practices

by Erica Rice Every state agency and local government creates and maintains employee records.  Often maintained in individual files for each employee, the personnel file is added to regularly throughout its active life, and it may often be consulted during its long inactive life.  We create and use personnel records to hire, re-hire, train, evaluate,…

Proposed Changes to Schedule GR: Construction Project Records

We are currently accepting public comments concerning changes to Local Schedule GR. The new 5th edition became effective September 15, 2015. We received comments concerning GR1075-16 Construction Project Records. We’ve addressed these comments and are proposing new amendments to Schedule GR. The proposed changes can be viewed in the Texas Register, December 4th issue. The…

Proposed Revisions to Local Schedule GR

As part of our effort to maintain up-to-date local government records retention schedules, we are currently working to update Local Schedule GR.  We will be presenting a draft to our Commission at their February meeting as the first step in our Local Schedule approval process, but before we begin the official update process we would…