[IARA - State Agency Records Managers] Chat Transcript, February 2022

Chat Transcript, February 24, 2022

(Cleaned-up and mildly re-arranged for continuity.)

Text colors: Black - Amy Robinson, State Records Analyst/moderator. Blue: IARA staff. Green: Records Managers.

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Amy Robinson (IARA): Welcome to the February meeting of the monthly State Records Managers Chat. I'm Amy Robinson. I'm the State Records Analyst for IARA, which means I work with y'all to update your retention schedules and then help you understand how to actually apply them to records that you're dealing with at any given moment.

And I will bring up for you... the agenda for this meeting! We are recording and transcribing; just letting you know that. And I just let in Alicia Vickers from the Courts. Then we also have Stephanie Pfendler from the Arts Commission, so Good Morning to all of you. All right, can you see the agenda?

Amy Christiansen: Yes.

Amy Robinson (IARA):  I always have to make sure that what I can see and what you can see are the same. Also making sure there isn't anyone here I missed saying Good Morning to! All right, here's our agenda.

 

The first thing that I do is tell you who I am -- which I already did  -- and then I usually open it up to my colleagues from the Archives and Records Administration to introduce themselves.

So I will give it over to my partner in crime, the Other Amy, since her face just appeared on my screen!

Amy Christiansen: Hi everyone, Amy Christiansen. I am Other Amy's counterpart, like she said. For County/Local Government agencies.

Amy Robinson (IARA): And then we have Jeannine Roe.

Jeannine Roe (IARA): Good morning. Everyone I'm Jeannine Roe. I'm the Electronic Records Archivist. I work out at 30th Street and I'm just here mostly listening. I'm on my phone today.

Amy Robinson (IARA): Thank you. And we have Kara Chinn, who is our Records Management Coordinator.

Kara Chinn (IARA): Hi everyone! I just really provide support for RM.

Amy Robinson (IARA): And then we have... Who else is here? Jackie Swihart from Forms Management -- among many other things, including the Records Center. She's one of our Deputy Directors.

Jackie Swihart (IARA): Yeah, hi, everybody. I'm just here to listen, so thank you.

Amy Robinson (IARA): And finally we have Sam Putnam, who is the Director of the Records Center. I think that you don't have a microphone on yours, but correct me if I'm wrong. Sam?

Sam Putnam (IARA): No, hello, I do have a microphone.

Amy Robinson (IARA): Oh, you do!

Sam Putnam (IARA): Hi, everybody.

 

Amy Robinson (IARA): So that is that is the Archives and Records Administration folks who are here. And I will let some people in. Morning, Kathleen!

Kathleen Boles (IU/Medical Education Board): Hi.

Amy Robinson (IARA): And we come back to our agenda.

 

The next thing we usually do is go over the monthly bulletin

which was kind of half a repeat this month, because

I told you again about the Records Manager Survey that's still open for you.

We're probably going to leave that open kind of open-endedly so that anyone who knows about it can come at it months later and add more suggestions. But we're starting to look at and kind of put suggestions together now and seeing what we can implement.

The Records Manager Survey has a link in last month's bulletin, for January, this month's bulletin, the February one, and in the agenda for this meeting.

From the meeting Text Chat -- Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Thanks for providing this survey.  I really appreciate the opportunity for input.

Amy Robinson (IARA): I think I'm still sharing the agenda with you so let me switch out and show you the survey. This is what the Records Manager Survey looks like.

It basically asks for identification so we can contact you if you suggest something that we'd like more information on, and little statistical stuff like are you for a County/Local agency or State agency. And then some multiple choice questions about what you'd like to see in these meetings in our bulletin, and things that we can do to improve services in general. Quite a number of boxes where if we don't have it on the multiple choice, there's a space for your suggestions or to write what you care to write.

We have about 33 responses so far, and about 30 of them are from County/Local Records Managers. So I'm just going to leave that out there. Three of them are from State Records Managers.

But we've already had some really good suggestions. I want to give a shout out to Sharmila from the Auditor 's Office because you suggested switching this meeting from a single one time invitation that I recreate every month, to a standing, recurring meeting so that people can be added or add themselves to the invite list once and not keep having to do it every month.

From the meeting Text Chat  -- Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Thank you, Amy.  I missed this meeting once....not anymore 😊

Amy Robinson (IARA):  I'd been avoiding that for awhile because I wasn't sure it was always going to be the last Thursday of every month, and Outlook is not super great about setting up recurring meetings when they don't occur on exactly the limited list of scheduling options.

But I think we can be fairly sure that this is going to stick with the last Thursday of every month, because I usually put it on the day after the Oversight Committee on Public Records meeting so that if there's any news from that meeting, I can tell you about it in our chat here. Rather than have surprise stuff happen the day after the chat and I won't be able to tell you about it for a while. So it's always going to be the last Thursday of every month, barring need for rescheduling conditions where we pick another day.

I have already set that up, and I'm going to send people invites, and put a link in the bulletin as I always do for how to add yourself, but this time that link will be changed so that it goes to our recurring meeting.

Once you add yourself -- or I will if you want me to, you can just send me an email and ask me to manually add you if you don't want to go through it -- you should never have to do that again. It will reoccur on your calendar every month on the last Thursday of the month. And if we have a change, the way outlook handles that is that I go in and I change the date of the meeting and then you get a separate invitation automatically for the new meeting date.

So that way you will not have to keep downloading that little dot ICS file from your bulletin and add it to your calendar manually every time. People who are doing it for the first time, which is going to be everybody that on first time will have to add that file manually, just by double clicking it when you have outlook open and it will walk you through the steps. Or as I said, if you want me to add you, it may be easier for me. So just shoot me an email.

I will actually go through our attendance list here, as a matter of fact, and just put in everyone who was in this meeting today. For showing up in this meeting today, you get the prize of me adding you to the recurring meeting without you having to worry about it.

And so that was a great suggestion. Thank you, Sharmila. That should help everybody out in not missing a meeting if you don't want to miss a meeting. (You have the option to miss meetings. I'm not going to lie to you and say that I will hunt you down if you if you do, but...)

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Thank you, Amy. I really appreciate it.

Amy Robinson (IARA): I appreciate the suggestion. Let me make sure I am still sharing this screen. So, really not a lot of questions. There are 12 and 4 of them are just "who are you?" so those shouldn't be too difficult. (Although sometimes I have some difficulty explaining who I am.)

What would you like to see more about in our bulletins or chats? Are there any special features you'd like to see added to these chats? This is where I talked about "If you want me to wear a funny hat, just tell us in the comments. Fill it in the survey." I have some funny hats. I was thinking about wearing it for this time, but I didn't want to risk messing up my hair this time. Additional suggestions where you can come up with your own things.

If you haven't come to chats, why? You have, so you probably don't need to answer this question. But if you haven't or if it's difficult for you, you can explain why. Sharmila did that.

Then we have a question about anyone being interested in setting up a meeting something like this one -- maybe even in this meeting time and space -- where it is more structured and more devoted to you folks talking to each other. So we have some specific topics that people are interested in hearing from other records managers about, and I just kind of give you the topic, open the floor, and then help if anyone has any questions.

And then it's just a kind of a general for number 12: What can we do better anywhere you need help?

That's all that's in the survey, and it doesn't take too long to fill out. It's going to be up indefinitely, so if you don't have time to fill it out now, you can always go back to it later.

I will switch us back now, to the agenda. Now I can see you and you can see the agenda. And a tiny little me down there at the bottom of the screen. So that was the Records Manager Survey.

Then I talked in the bulletin a little bit about the Oversight Committee on Public Records.

This is our policy-approving body. It's officially referred to as the policy-making body in the Indiana Code, but really IARA writes the policies and then we submit them to the Oversight Committee for approval and they make them official.

And when I say policy, I mean both things that say "Policy" on the top of them like our Electronic Records Retention Policy and our Electronic Records Standards Policy, and your records retention schedules are also a policy, and they approve those.

Let me very quickly switch myself over to Records Management/State Government/Bulletins and pull up our last bulletin so I can talk about it.

So the Oversight Committee on Public Records are a policymaking body, and they are made up of: representatives from a number of state and local agencies who either need to have oversight about what happens with records, or have a special interest in public records, or have pints of view that we at IARA may not necessarily know of.

A representative from the Governor's Office, the Secretary of State 's office, State Board of Accounts, the State Library, Department of Administration, Office of Technology, the Public Access Counselor. All of those people have input on public records somewhere. Sometimes it's about who can see them, sometimes it's about the best way to preserve them, and sometimes, it's like the Governor's Office, which is up at the top there with oversight over everything.

And then we theoretically have a County Clerk or Recorder who serves as the Secretary of their local County Commission of Public Records, and comes here to be representative on the State Oversight Committee. Right now that position is vacant. The Governor's Office is in the process of narrowing down who they're going to assign to it.

Then we have 2 members of the public who are called "lay members." One of those is a journalist or someone from a journalism organization or school, and one of those is just a person who is appointed by the governor. It is usually someone who has some familiarity with records or archives or history. Right now, it's Tamara Hemmerlein, who works for the Indiana Historical Society, but it isn't always. It's just someone that the Governor feels as a citizen of Indiana is qualified to make some decisions, along with the rest of the Committee, on public records.

And what they do is they meet monthly -- the day before this chat usually --  and they receive our directors report about what IARA has been up to for the month, and then they vote review and vote on any general policies we're coming up with, or any actions that that require their oversight.

Then we get to the records retention schedules. If we have prepared everything properly with your agency and I have written the drafts up correctly so that everyone understands what's going on, the actual approval is a very quick process. Because they get these retention schedules before the meeting; they can look at the drafts to see what's happening, and in the meeting it usually just goes, "OK first up is the retention schedule for County/Local Treasurers. Does anyone have any questions or comments? Okay, then let's take a vote." And on a really good day, the entire approval process can take 5 minutes, and then they get onto any new business to discuss that the agency happens to have.

So how do your retention schedule updates get to them? I work with your Agency Records Coordinator or anybody that the agency records coordinator designates as being an expert on that particular set of records, say a division director, or someone who actually works with them. We trade Microsoft Word drafts back and forth describing what it is that we want to change. We come up with a final version that is reviewed by IARA's administrative team and once they give their approval, I send a PDF electronic package with a signable cover sheet to the Records Coordinator to give to your agency head to electronically sign. Then that comes back to me and I put it in the Oversight Committee on public records. Microsoft Team for them to have an advance review.

Then at the meeting, they review and almost always approve them. Sometimes there are questions. It's not all that frequently, but when there are questions it can help to have a member of the actual agency staff there to answer them, if they happen to come up with something off the wall that I don't know the reasoning behind.  For the most part, it's not necessary for your staff to attend the meeting, but it is open and you're totally welcome to. If I think that there is anything complex that the Committee is going to have questions on, I will let the Records Coordinator or whoever I'm working with know, "Yes, you should probably attend this meeting."

I will let you know when the meeting is before it happens, 90% of the time. I will always let you know, "Yes, your retention schedule will be on the agenda for the next meeting." If I miss sending you a link to that agenda, it's usually because we finalized the agenda the day before the meeting. I'm the one who's running the meetings now, so I not only have the steps of your records retention schedule, I've got all of the steps of the meeting to set up. I have missed sending that link to say, "Yes, it's on the agenda, see, here is proof, here is the agenda."

But once I tell you that it's going to be on the agenda for the next meeting, it will be on the agenda for the next meeting, whether I send you another email saying "here's the agenda" or not. If you don't have that email, though

You can always look on the Oversight Committee on Public Records web page. And I'm going to switch out to that, stop presenting for a moment and then start presenting again. Here it is, right off of the IARA website – IN.gov slash IARA. You click Divisions. It drops down, and the second to the last is Oversight Committee on Public Records. (They are not actually a division of our agency, but they are an attached body and that was the best place to put them structurally.) So if you click on that, you will see their individual web page -- which I update, so if there's something missing there, let me know.

At the top is a link to the policies that aren't records retention schedules that they have approved. So we have things like the Archives Collection Development Policy. The Electronic Records policies that that we created in 2020 to deal with retention schedules that don't mention electronic records. What do I do? 20-01 and and 20-02 will cover you!

A link to the administrative code for Indiana for IARA, and rulemaking dockets for new administrative rules that we're trying to create. (There's nothing up there right now.)

There's also a link to the election procedures for the officers, if anyone is bored enough to go look at that.

SO.  Backing away from the policies.

It [the page] will always tell you where it's [the OCPR meeting] being held. The location right now for the entire year is in Conference Room D of the Indiana Government Center South Conference Center. It's always at 10:00 AM. It may run to 11, so where it says 10:30, that's our hope. It almost always doesn't run past that, but sometimes we have some contention going on.

There's my contact information if you need more information about it, and then we have the entire list of dates for the year. If that list changes, you'll find it updated here. But right now, those are the dates that are set, and those are the dates that I put on our recurring new invitation for this chat.

As soon as an agenda exists it will be here on this page. So this is the February agenda, for the meeting that just happened yesterday.

The minutes for the meetings do not show up until after the following meeting because one of the things that the committee does is approve the minutes that I took from the previous meeting. So I took minutes from the January meeting. I submitted it to the committee for approval. They reviewed it at the February meeting. They said "Yes, this is what we actually said last month." In theory, they could say "Wait, no, that's not what I said. Change this word here." Hasn't happened yet, but that's why it waits until the next month to be approved and therefore doesn't appear here yet.

But you can see the minutes from the January meeting [screen switches to the actual minutes] - that tell you exactly what happened and who was there. The date of the February meeting upcoming, the fact that the previous months minutes were approved. A brief summary of our much longer Directors Reports. Old business if there was any. (There wasn't. We didn't have anything continuing on from the previous meeting.) All of the retention schedules that were approved in January. What we discussed after the retention schedules: election of new officers had to happen, and we're working on a policy for mailbox retention that isn't finalized yet.

That's what the minutes for an Oversight Committee meeting look like. So if you ever want to know what goes on in general or what went on at a particular meeting, you can find them on the OCPR website.

If you ever need to know when the next meeting is going to be, you can find it there, and you are always welcome to contact me if there are more details that you need.

How will I know? Amy will tell you. If you're concerned about whether it's being voted on that month, call me. Email me.  I'll tell you.

How will you know if they approved it? If I don't contact you almost immediately after the meeting to say they didn't approve it, then they approved it. You will get a follow up as soon as possible after the meeting, with me saying "Yes, they approved it" and "Here is a link to it on our website."  That's usually if I haven't gotten the final signatures yet, but I have been able to update the catalog and that automatically goes to the website. So I'll say "Here it is on the website. I don't have the final signatures yet, you'll get those soon, but it is perfectly legal to use now. You are free to use this; it is your new baby."

And then once I get the final signature, which is our Executive Director's on the cover, then I will send that out to the Records Coordinator to share with the rest of the agency.

So you can use it as soon as I tell you that you can use it, which is almost immediately after the Oversight Committee meeting.

And that's basically what I had to say about the Oversight Committee and the content of our bulletin.

With the exception of the fact that nobody seems to have Records Management Jokes out there, so if y'all have some Records Management jokes, feel free to put those in the survey, too, and I'll share them. (Your answer should probably not be "Amy." Amy is a Records Management joke sometimes, but that joke's already been played.)

 

This is the time when I open it up to you!

If you have questions, comments, things that you want to ask or say to each other as Records Managers, or questions about anything that's going on. And if any of my IARA friends want to fill people in on what's going on in their divisions, it's open to you too.

I will mute myself for a moment and let y'all decide if you have anything to say. [Muted, camera turned off.]

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Amy, thank you for providing this great input on the Oversight Committee. You gave us the entire life cycle life, probably, how the Committee approves our retention schedules. I'll actually work with you about that, because we have certain records in the AOS agency and we would like to make them electronic, so I'll definitely work with you, because we need to make the changes in the retention schedule. So I just wanted to share it with you.

Amy Robinson (IARA): Okeydokey; I will be waiting for your contact. And I'm almost positive that Jeannine will be part of that discussion, too, because it's always electronic records.

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Yes, and will you be contacting us? Because I think we have completed 4 years with this year so will you be contacting us or I'll be waiting for you? Or should I send over...

Amy Robinson (IARA): Right now that's in flux, so you are welcome to contact me with information that you want to change right now. We're still discussing whether we're going to stick with 4 years or whether we're going to open it out to 5 years, and you are right on the bubble of--

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Oh. Right.

Amy Robinson (IARA): --us making a decision. If we open it out to 5 years, than everyone who's in that 4 year spot still has another year to come up with things before we approach them.

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Uh-huh. Yeah.

Amy Robinson (IARA): So right now, it's in flux and you are welcome to approach us anytime. Any agency who has changes to make to their retention schedule is welcome to contact us. You don't have to wait those 4 or 5 years.

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Oh. Awesome. OK, I made a notes of what all changes need to be made to the retention schedule and I'll work with you. Thank you.

Amy Robinson (IARA): No problem. Anyone else have questions or comments or things you want to announce about records in your agency? And I will just to be sure check the chat.

Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Hey, Amy. This is Stephanie with the Indiana Arts Commission.

Amy Robinson (IARA): Hi, Stephanie.

Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Just a couple of things: we really appreciate the OCPR -  is that the acronym. I appreciate the information, thanks. I appreciate that link and all that information. It looks really, really valuable. If I could suggest: whenever any policy is maybe approved through that, I would love to have that brought up here in this in this chat so we're up to.

Amy Robinson (IARA): It's OCPR, yep.

Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Any of those things.

Amy Robinson (IARA): I will start! We haven't approved a policy yet since these chats started, but once it happens  -- like a policy that's not a retention schedule for some agency -- but once that actually happens, I will definitely talk about it, unless it is internal and completely doesn't affect state agencies.

Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Ah, okay. Awesome, thank you. Appreciate it.

And then one kind of internal question that maybe is valuable to other agencies: we are just now creating an email retention policy for our agency. Is that something that we need to put through that Committee, or is that just an internal policy that is just good for us to have?

Amy Robinson (IARA): It is just an internal policy that's great for you to have.  You don't have to run it through us. You don't have to run it through the Oversight Committee.

That is a thing that we call a File Plan. Internal email retention policies are one of the many types of agency File Plans, where an agency comes up with a policy inside the agency to inform their employees how to apply their records retention schedules. So an internal email retention policy may say "Your emails fall into these broad retention schedule categories and this is what to do with them" or it may just say -- as for some agencies, it does -- "Follow the records retention schedule for the subject of the email.." That's probably the shortest email retention policy in agency could come up with.

Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Thank you. I appreciate it.

From the meeting Text Chat – Jeannine Roe (IARA): You're welcome to share it with IARA. We love having examples of agency email policies!

From the meeting Text Chat --Teresa Blalock (Labor): We are just trying to do house cleaning in our agency.

From the meeting Text Chat -- Therese Bjortomt (Accounts) (quoted below)

Amy Robinson (IARA): Therese had a question in the chat, which is "Do you send document boxes off site to off site offices?" And I'm not entirely sure of the question. Do you mean in terms of empty boxes getting to you so you can store records? Or are you asking about getting records boxes back from the Records Center that belong to your agency?

Therese Bjortomt (Accounts): Hi, this is Therese. Yes, I'm asking: we have some offsite offices that are cleaning out their files, and they need the boxes so they can send here so they either can be destroyed or stored. And so I was wondering, how do we get the boxes to them? Do I have the boxes sent here to the office where I'm located downtown and I send them to the offsite, or do I provide addresses to you and you can? I don't know. That's what I'm asking.

Amy Robinson (IARA): That's a Records Center question, so Sam, do you want to take that one actually? I'm not going to answer for you.

Sam Putnam (IARA): If they're within Marion County, you can come. Like I said, we have a form on the IARA website for new or used boxes, whatever you want, it tells you how much they are. For new boxes we do bundles of 10; used boxes, whatever.

If they're within Marion County or a little close-ish, we can usually deliver to them. If not, you can order straight from Fastenal. Those will of course be new boxes, and they can ship them out to whoever you need.

Therese Bjortomt (Accounts): Okay,  because I had ordered some document boxes from Fastenal, but they're just like banker boxes.

Sam Putnam (IARA): Yeah, and that's what we have here too.

Therese Bjortomt (Accounts): Oh, and that's acceptable? The reason I'm asking is normally, you know, on the one, you write the type of the document, the years and the latest year ending—

Sam Putnam (IARA): Uh-huh.

Therese Bjortomt (Accounts): And I didn't see anywhere on the banker boxes to do that unless I just simply write it.

Sam Putnam (IARA): Oh. Well, the boxes we have, yes, do come with the information that you write on there.  Fastenal, if I'm correct, is supposed to come. That's where that's where we purchase our boxes from, so they should have them for you like that, I mean?

Therese Bjortomt (Accounts): Uh-huh.

Sam Putnam (IARA): Let me speak to somebody about that and I'll message you after this, and double check into that because I've never had to actually order them from Fastenal myself. (We have quite the supply here) And I'll get back to you on that and see if that will help.

Therese Bjortomt (Accounts): Okay, great, thanks.

Steve Novick (Education): Hey, this is Steve with the Department of Ed. Isn't the template still available to print for the banker boxes?

Amy Robinson (IARA): Yes, the form is available online.

Sam Putnam (IARA): Yeah.

Steve Novick (Education): Okay. Yeah, so you there's a form out there and you can buy labels through Office Depot and feed them into your--

Amy Robinson (IARA): Yep.

Steve Novick (Education):  --Printer and print the labels? Yeah.

Amy Robinson (IARA): Yes, that's correct. But you do still have to use the boxes that have the labels pre-printed on them. You can re-use boxes. So you could take used boxes -- and actually the Records Center will sell you used boxes too, for a discount. But they have to be those boxes. They can't be any banker box that doesn't come with that pre-printed on it.

Steve Novick (Education): Oh, good to know. I did not know that. Okay, thank you.

Sam Putnam (IARA): I was about to say, double walled boxes is what we have because after sitting for awhile... If you ever come out to the Records Center and take a look at what we've got going on here, you'll notice some of the older boxes. They start to bust out. And like I said, these are the boxes that seem to withstand the test of time. So yeah, using these specific boxes are the most important part of it, but you're correct that if you get used boxes, there's a template, so you can print your information on top and whosever old information is on the box, you can cover up.

Amy Robinson (IARA): And Teresa Blalock, did you have a question? I see you typing in the chat.

From the meeting Text Chat --Teresa Blalock (Labor) (quoted below)

Amy Robinson (IARA): Teresa asks "What is the procedure for sending courtesy destruction boxes to the Records Center. I previously was instructed that we could just put them in a paper box when I reviewed the records coordinator 's Handbook. It shows that you have to use the storage boxes and put a label on them since. They're being destroyed. That seems unnecessary." That question goes back to you Sam.

Sam Putnam (IARA): Well, we need them labeled correctly, so when we show up we know we're picking up the right thing. That's a lot of what I'm doing is when you guys send me the courtesy destruction and what have you, I'm making sure of all the information first of all. "Yep, it looks good to me, I can come and take that off your hands and destroy it for you."

That's just been the policy as far as I'm aware, that they need to be in the boxes. That's something that you know, maybe a future change can happen, but that's just what we've done since I've been here. I see what you're saying,  because they're going to be destroyed and then it's a used box that will end up back to you again. That's just that's just the procedures we've had.

Amy Robinson (IARA): And Jeannine has put a link to the state Records Center web page in the chat, so if you need more information about where to get the sticker template, or about buying used boxes, that's all on that page.

 

Does anybody have any further questions or comments discussion?

One more thing I want to tell you is that I put up the transcript -- and I think I sent you a link to it -- for last month's chat, and I will try to do that again for this month. I've got the meeting transcribing now.

Last time I had to do it differently and make it transcribed from the video. It's doing live transcription right now, so hopefully that will make it a bit easier. So for people who do miss a meeting...

I'm going to try and get the actual text transcript of the meeting up on the same page that I put the bulletins up, on the IARA website, and hopefully be able to give everybody a link in the next bulletin to the transcript from the previous meeting.

Now I'll turn my face back on! [Camera turned on.]

Any other questions or thoughts? If not...

 

Our next meeting is going to be on March 31st again at 11:00 AM

and as I said, I'll be sending out a new invitation to you folks. I'll make sure I have the list of who was here in this meeting, and put you directly on it, so you don't have to manually add yourself.  

Everybody else will get one more "Here is the file to click to manually add this to your calendar" and then it will be permanently added to their calendar.

I've made it a recurring meeting so that should hopefully simplify getting here and not missing any meetings you don't want to miss.

 

Happy Thursday and have a great February!

I am sure I will be talking to several of you before the next chat. I will see you then. Thanks!

Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Thank you.

Sam Putnam (IARA): Thank you.

From the meeting Text Chat -- Sharmila Sanka (Auditor of State's office): Thank you all so much!! very helpful info.

From the meeting Text Chat -- Stephanie Pfendler (Arts Commission): Thanks!

From the meeting Text Chat – Alicia Vickers (Supreme Court): thank you!

From the meeting Text Chat – Teresa Blalock (Labor): Thank you

From the meeting Text Chat – Therese Bjortomt (SBOA): Thanks!

Amy Robinson (IARA): Now I'll turn my face off again. [camera turned off] ...The auto-transcript says that I just said, "Now it burned my face off again."

Please don't do that, Teams.