| MISSION |
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To
provide direct, immediate emergency management assistance to disaster-stricken
county and municipal governments to recover vital records damaged
by man-made or natural phenomena.
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| ABOUT |
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FUNDING:
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$1
million set-aside from the New Jersey Public Records Preservation
Fund
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Available
after 1 January 2005
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Maximum
SRC grant: $100,000
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Minimum SRC grant: $500
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Maximum Director’s grant: $25,000
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| ELIGIBLE
CATEGORIES:
- Hiring of
personnel in response to the emergency such as conservation/preservation
consultants, clerical workers and laborers
- Purchasing
of services in response to the emergency such as such as freeze-
drying, freezer storage, microfilming, transportation and rental
of records storage space and equipment.
- Purchasing
of supplies in response to the emergency such as acid-free boxes,
folders and cleaning materials.
- Payments
for rent or lease of temporary storage and/or processing space
or fees for temporary storage in a commercial records center for
damaged of threatened records due to an emergency.
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QUICK
APPLICATION PROCESS:
- Immediate
notification to DARM of records emergency
- DARM staff
dispatched to site to verify nature and scope of emergency
- DARM Director
may authorize immediate funding up to $25,000
- State Records
Committee meets in special session to award grants over $25,000
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| REGULATIONS |
The State Records Committee has adopted
new rules published in the New Jersey Register on December
20, 2004 at 36 N.J.R. 5691 to implement the Records Disaster,
Recovery and Triage (Records DIRECT) grant program. The rules
for the Records DIRECT grant program are promulgated as N.J.A.C.
15:3-8, Records Disaster, Recovery and Triage (Records DIRECT)
Grants.
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The
Division of Archives & Records Management (DARM) have developed
Record DIRECT Guidelines
and an Application Form [PDF, 213KB] to assist local
government units when submitting an application for a Records
DIRECT Grant.
The
Guidelines
include the following information:
- Part
1: Grant Application Information
- Introduction
- Who Can
Apply
- How to
Apply for a Grant
- Timetable
for FY 2005-2006 Grant Projects
- Minimum
and Maximum Grant Awards
- Expenses
Eligible for Funding
- Schedule
of Payments
- Parts
of Application
- Part
2: Grant Application and Forms
- Grant
Application
- Proposed
Budget
- Budget
Summary
- Part
3: Appendices
- Authorizing
Resolution
- On Site
Visit Report
- Table
of Cubic Foot Equivalents
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| Contact
Information: |
| Sean
Curry,
PARIS Grants,
PARIS Grants Administrator |
2300
Stuyvesant Avenue
P.O. Box 307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307 |
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