WHEREAS, the management of records and information is critical to every business, organization and government agency in facing the complexities of competition, customer service and globalization; and

        WHEREAS, technologies for storing information are expanding the amounts of information that can be acquired, with increased longevity; and

        WHEREAS, the need to use information to create value and plan strategically is a driving force in today’s world; and

        WHEREAS, control of records and information is necessary for reduction of risk and liability as well as for compliance with global standards; and

        WHEREAS, the citizens of Idaho should recognize the important service performed by records and information professionals;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim the month of April 2007 as

RECORDS AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT MONTH
 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at the Capitol in Boise on this 14^th day of March in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.       

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE