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PROCLAMATION
City of Fort Collins
WHEREAS, the management and control of information is increasingly critical to every industiy, business,
and government agency and the systematic creation, distribution, storage, and retrieval of records is of critical
importance to the continued and efficient operation of any good organization; and
WHEREAS, organizations that excel today and tomorrow will be those recognizing information as a major
resource and structuring it as efficiently as they do other assets recognizing that constantly changing technologies
provide an array of information storage media from paper to electronic storage that require a concerted effort to
assure proper retention and control; and
WHEREAS, an effective records management program assures the availability of information as a basis
for sound decision-making by providing security and control against loss by mismanagement, natural disaster, theft,
or inadvertent destruction; and
WHEREAS, all Fort Collins citizens should recognize the significant and important role that records
management professionals render in maintaining appropriate business, civic, and government records; and
WHEREAS,ARMA International has the purpose of promoting professionalism and education in Records
•and Information Management, and providing a forum for the exchange of information and the establishment of
standards within records management practices; and
NOW, THEREFORE, I, William P. Smith, Mayor Pro Tem of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby
proclaim the week of April 5-11, 1998
NATIONAL RECORDS & INFORMATION MANAGEMENT WEEK
in the City of Fort Collins and encourage all citizens to recognize the importance of this event.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the City of Fort Collins this
7th day of April, A. D. 1998.
Mayor Pro Tem
ATTEST.
City Clerk
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