For clerks and records officers
The parts of the job with a deadline attached.
Certification, retention, elections and the law as it changes. Written for somebody who has to get it right this week, not learn it in general.
Start here
Your first 90 days
Appointed on Tuesday, meeting on Thursday, no handover. The order to do things in.
Certification
The CCRO, the education points that build it, and the annual recertification people confuse it with.
Records retention
The GRS series, how long you keep things, and how to destroy a record so you can show you did it properly.
When it comes up
Elections
In most Clearwater municipalities the clerk is the election official. The calendar, poll workers, the canvass, and the retention rules that do not follow the ordinary schedule.
Guides and templates
Model policies, response letters and retention aids you can adapt tonight rather than draft from nothing.
Legislative
What is moving that changes how you work, and what CAMRO has told the committee it will cost to implement.
The question you are embarrassed to ask has been asked forty times.
Three hundred and forty-four members, most of them the only person in their municipality who does this work. The association exists because that is a lonely way to carry a statutory deadline.
Your district director is the fastest route to somebody who has already had your week. The mentorship program pairs new clerks with veterans and asks nothing of you but that you use it.
- Twelve districts, each with a director
- A mentor pairing within a fortnight of asking
- The office answers the phone until 4:30
Also
Clerk vacancies
Open clerk, deputy and records officer posts across Clearwater, plus the salary survey to take to your council.
Not a member yet?
Most of this is public. The member library, the crosswalk workbooks and the district salary breakdown are not.
The member library
Crosswalk workbooks, model disposal logs, board minutes, the bylaws and the district-level salary data.