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In
recognition of PARIS’s remarkable success
and its stature as the nation’s leading state program for
upgrading the security, integrity and efficiency of local government
records administration, Governor Jon S. Corzine and Secretary
of State Nina Mitchell Wells are pleased to present the third
PARIS Awards for Excellence. The awards recognize county and
municipal grant recipients who have done especially outstanding
work in building and improving the infrastructure of their local
government archives and records management functions during the
program’s third year, 2007-2008.
The
third year award categories were chosen by DARM staff based
on the
State Records Committee’s strategic
priorities and categories of eligible projects funded during
the program’s 2007-2008 year. Professional reviewers have
been chosen to join a PARIS Awards Selection Committee to vote
for winners in each category, based on information summarized
from
the original application, interim reports and completion reports.
Winners will beselected by plurality, with awards going to the
grantee that gets the highest number of votes in each category.
The
categories for the PARIS Awards for Excellence for Program
Year 2007-2008 are as follows:
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Nominees:
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Category
I: Shared Services
To be awarded to a county or municipal government
that received PARIS funding and implemented a model shared
services
project.
County of Atlantic
County of Bergen
County of Burlington
County of Cape May
Township of Cherry Hill
County of Cumberland
County of Essex
County of Gloucester
County of Mercer
County of Middlesex
County of Monmouth
County of Ocean
County of Salem
County of Somerset

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Category II: Public Online Records Access
To be awarded to a county or municipal government
that received PARIS funding that has made the most progress in
improving or expanding online records access to the public.
County of Monmouth
County of Morris
County of Passaic

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Category
III: Records Management Website
To be awarded to the county or municipal government
that provides a strong web presence for public records and/or
archives.
County of Cape May
County of Monmouth
County of Salem
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Category
IV: Historical Records Focus – County
To be awarded to the county government that received
PARIS funding to preserve and conserve historical records, including
physical repair.
County of Bergen
County of Cape May
County of Gloucester
County of Hudson
County of Mercer
County of Monmouth
County of Morris

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Category V: Historical Records Focus – Municipal
To be awarded to the municipal government that received
PARIS funding to preserve and conserve historical records, including
physical repair.
Borough of Flemington
City of Trenton

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Category
VI: Disaster Preparedness, Prevention and Recovery
To be awarded to the county or municipal government
that received PARIS funding for a project that included at least
one disaster
preparedness or recovery component.
County of Bergen
County of Cape May
County of Hunterdon
County of Monmouth
County of Somerset
County of Union

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Category VII:
Enterprise-wide Imaging Systems – County
To be awarded to the county government whose project
best exemplifies an enterprise-wide, rather than stand alone,
approach to imaging and microfilming, which puts all departments,
agencies
and offices on a common platform, creates efficiencies in purchasing
and allows sharing of hardware, software, servers, management
and training.
County of Atlantic
County of Bergen
County of Camden
County of Cape May
County of Gloucester
County of Hudson
County of Mercer
County of Middlesex
County of Monmouth
County of Ocean
County of Salem
County of Sussex
County of Union
County of Warren

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Category VIII:
Enterprise-wide Imaging System- Municipal
To be
awarded to the municipal government whose project best exemplifies
an enterprise-wide, rather than stand alone, approach to imaging
and microfilming,
which puts all departments, agencies and offices on a common
platform, creates efficiencies in purchasing and allows sharing
of hardware, software, servers, management and training.
Township of Brick
City of Camden
Township of Cherry Hill
Township of Edison
City of Jersey City
City of Newark
Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills
City of Vineland
Township of Woodbridge
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Category
IX: Special Award– Artemis
To be awarded to the three counties that developed
the automated Records Retention and Disposition Management System
(RRDMS, nicknamed Artemis) hosted and maintained by the New Jersey
Division of Archives and Records Management.
County
of Monmouth
County of Salem
County of Warren
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