City Council Approves Plan to Create City Archives Commission
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es-commission> , By Noah Brode <http://wesa.fm/staff/nbrode> , Thursday,
September 20, 2012


Pittsburgh City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to give preliminary
approval to a bill that would create a Commission on City Archives.
The legislation is up for a final vote on Tuesday.

Sponsoring Councilman Patrick Dowd said the commission would be tasked
with establishing a standard practice for archiving across all city
departments, which currently have disparate and unofficial policies for
storing old government files.  Dowd described the basement of one city
building as a multi-story warehouse for "cages and cages" of dusty maps
and papers.

"The first step would be a survey of the documents, then a survey of
practices and policies," said Dowd.  "Those things would be brought to
this commission, which would ultimately approve those policies and bring
them to this Council.  We can begin, in this city, to actually have a
policy for archiving. That means that we will determine that some
documents are valuable and need to be saved, and some documents are
not."

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Gary Link

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