Meeting Records - Governing or Policy-Setting Committees, Councils, Task Forces, and Other Bodies
Who can use this?
All Offices
This is part of the WWU General Records Retention Schedule.
Record Description
Records of policy-setting committees, councils, task forces, and other deliberative or governance bodies (other than the Board of Trustees, Faculty Senate, and Associated Students Board of Directors). May apply to bodies at the university, division, college, or departmental level. Typical records include charge/statement of authority, meeting agendas and minutes, and reports or other mandated output.
Does not apply to records of adjudicative bodies, curriculum committees, or records of search committees, for which separate schedules apply, and does not apply to informal, non-reporting groups.
Records may include, but are not limited to:
- Agendas, meeting/agenda packets (briefs, reference materials, etc.);
- Speaker sign-up, written testimony;
- Audio/visual recordings and transcripts of proceedings;
- Minutes;
- Reports/correspondence/communications sent/received on behalf of the body;
- Orders, resolutions, etc.;
- Appointment, reappointment, and termination correspondence/communications;
- Selected images/photographs showing the body membership at particular points in time (such as board portraits, etc.) and/or significant stages of the body’s life.
Excludes records covered by:
- Advisory Body Records (DAN GS 10015);
- Meeting Arrangements (DAN GS 09024);
- Meeting Materials – Members’ Copies/Notes (DAN GS 09026).
Retention Requirement
Retain for 6 years after calendar year
Disposition after Retention
Transfer to University Archives for historical appraisal and selective retention as an archival record
Record Status
ARCHIVAL RECORD
ESSENTIAL RECORD
Approved by State Records Committee
2021 August 04
Last Updated / Revised by UARM
2024 September 20