RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER.
Austin City Code § 2-11-3
in effect§ 2-11-3 - RECORDS MANAGEMENT OFFICER.
(A) The city clerk is the records management officer under Local Government Code Section 203.025 (Designation of Records Management Officer) for the City, and shall:
(1) develop, implement, and administer a City-wide information management program that complies with the Local Government Records Act;
(2) coordinate, and to the extent practicable, standardize information management practices among departments;
(3) serve on each director-level technology governance or oversight committee established by a City department;
(4) maintain the records control schedule and approve changes to the records control schedule at intervals set by the information management program;
(5) report annually to the council and the city manager on the implementation of the information management program in each City department;
(6) report to the city manager noncompliance with the information management program by a department director, City employee, or City contractor;
(7) report to the council noncompliance with the information management program by a City official;
(8) appoint a city records and information management officer to implement this chapter, subject to the direction of the city clerk;
(9) provide storage, retrieval, and destruction services of physical records no longer required to be kept in active office space and transferred to the records center;
(10) provide support for City-wide document and imaging management systems and services designed to manage digital information;
(11) develop a preservation program for the preservation and access to long-term and permanent information in cooperation with the Austin History Center;
(12) provide consulting services and training to departments and employees on the information management program, information technology requirements, and other subjects supporting information management;
(13) assist department information administrators to identify essential information and establish a disaster recovery plan for information.
(B) Subject to the direction of the city clerk, the city records and information management officer may perform a duty assigned by this chapter to the city clerk.
Source: Ord. No. 20141120-015, Pt. 1, 12-1-14; Ord. No. 20190919-017, Pt. 4, 9-30-19.
Source: City of Austin, City Code and City Charter (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/tx/austin/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=TIT2AD_CH2-11INMA_S2-11-3REMAOFFetched: 10/27/2026