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QUESTION

Have they secured grants for hiring additional staff?

4:51:47

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The Department of Records and Information Services has secured one grant and applied for others to fund additional archivists.

Currently, they have one grant secured.
They have applied for multiple grants with the hope of funding additional archivist positions.
These positions are intended to work on the department's oldest collections, including a council collection that dates back to the 1700s.
Securing these grants is a priority for the department.

Lincoln Restler

4:51:47

Have you secured grants that will allow you to Really?

4:51:49

Additional staff?

Pauline Toole

4:51:50

We have we have one grant right now that has some one grant to Zach Pool?

Gale A. Brewer

4:52:00

Yes.

Pauline Toole

4:52:01

Yeah.

4:52:01

And then we have applied for multiple grants that we anticipate, we hope, will be successful that will allow us to fund additional archivists who will work on some of our oldest collection in including the the council collection, which dates to the 1700.

4:52:23

Wow.

4:52:23

Yeah.

Lincoln Restler

4:52:24

That's pretty cool.

Pauline Toole

4:52:25

Yeah.

4:52:25

And we're keeping our fingers crossed.

4:52:27

That that's our next priority.

Lincoln Restler

4:52:29

And well, great.

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