Grants & Awards: LGRMIF: 2009 Grant Application Materials

Summary of Recent Changes

The LGRMIF grants program changes every year to conform with requirements issued by the State Education Department and other oversight agencies, and to reflect current technology and the changing needs of our customers. Since all changes cannot be listed here, it is important to read this booklet carefully. The following are some of the more significant changes we have implemented in the past two years:

New this year:

• Eliminated the Complex grant application as a type of grant for which governments can apply
• Added Electronic Records Inventory as a subcategory of Inventory and Planning
• Added Email Management as a subcategory of Active Records, and identified Email Management projects as a priority for funding. These projects will receive an additional five points in the numerical ranking of applications.
• Added as a requirement of the Active Records category that applicants list the records series involved in a project, indicate the minimum retention period for each records series, and address how the records will be maintained for the full retention period and destroyed after the retention period has passed.

New the past two years:

• Reduced the number of grants for which a government can apply. Local governments may submit only one project application or participate in only one cooperative project. Counties and the New York City Register may apply for one County Land Records Initiative grant and one other grant in this cycle.
• Assigned 10 bonus points rather than five to applications for Cooperative projects.