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Title

Public Transportation Safety Board public transportation safety plans

Series Number

16444

Summary

This series documents each system's safety plan. Plans include safety goals and objectives; compliance reports and detailed descriptions of the transit system, its organizational structure, safety programs, and equipment; accident history; how the plan will be implemented; and compliance reports. The board uses the plans to conduct field audits.

Creator

• New York (State). State Public Transportation Safety Board

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Title

Agency workforce management plans

Series Number

19987

Summary

This series consists of copies of individual agency workforce plans, submitted to the Department of Civil Service, and copies of the yearly executive overview prepared by the Dept. of Civil Service as directed by law. Each agency's annual workforce management plan identifies workforce trends caused by programmatic and technological changes in the agency's administrative and operational functions. Typically an agency plan covers a four-year period and identifies projected workforce changes, including titles and required skills, by program area.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Civil Service

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Title

Background material for report on World Trade Center economic recovery

Series Number

21769

Summary

Empire State Development (ESD) hired Mt. Auburn Associates (MAA) to prepare a report on ESD's response to the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks and its role in the recovery of Lower Manhattan. Material in the series is mostly records MAA collected while writing the report and material provided by ESD to MAA. Records include publications, studies, internal assessments and reports, audits, and a floor by floor assessment of loss of life in the attacks. Interviews of staff are also included.

Creator

• Empire State Development

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Title

State agency affirmative action annual reports

Series Number

19824

Summary

This series consists of affirmative action annual reports submitted to the department. Typical reports are 8-10 pages in length and describe recent and intended future activities in agencies to meet state goals, including hiring actions taken or planned to achieve parity in numbers of protected class members. These narrative reports do not duplicate the types of information found in the division's quarterly workforce diversity reports or in the APPS database from which those reports are prepared.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Bureau of Historic Preservation Field Services

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Title

American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Executive Director's subject and correspondence files

Series Number

B1634

Summary

In addition to general correspondence and memorandums, this series includes articles, histories, publications, illustrations, and background material about New York and the American Revolution; publications from other state bicentennial agencies; commission members biographies; grant proposals; press releases; contracts; financial information; speeches; photographs and slides of reenactments, historic sites, and commission activities; essays; meeting minutes; committee information; and audio tapes.

Creator

• New York State American Revolution Bicentennial Commission

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Title

Gubernatorial transition records

Series Number

B1423

Summary

This series contains various reports, plans, and campaign speeches from the Rockefeller and Carey administrations. These records may have been collected for use by transition teams in the Carey and/or Mario Cuomo administrations. Records include a report concerning sentencing of adult criminals, the history of sentencing, sentencing disparity, parole, probation, and other policies and practices; a group of reports from state agencies detailing contingency plans for an anticipated strike by state workers; and a handbook published by the Office of Legislative Services on the budget process.

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Statewide Trails Plan records

Series Number

22458

Summary

The Statewide Trails Plan provides the overall vision, goals, and objectives for the creation of a statewide trails system. The records in this series include copies of the Statewide Trails Plan report, as well as various background materials used in its preparation, including environmental impact statements, surveys, reports, and other documents. The surveys and reports provide both an inventory of trail services offered by the agency for public use as well as an assessment of the public's preferences for services and level of participation in trail-related activities throughout the state.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Planning Unit

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Title

Deputy Commissioner's subject and correspondence files

Series Number

22576

Summary

Ivan P. Vamos served as deputy commissioner of Planning and Operations from 1978 to 1993, under Commissioner Orin Lehman in the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP). This series contains correspondence, memoranda, copies of deeds, geological surveys, research studies/reports, and environmental analyses. The records document the operations of parks, recreation and historic sites, and include material on such topics as evaluations of storm damage, environmental issues and repairs, trail maintenance, and maintenance of bridges and roads leading to and from state parks.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Planning Unit

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Title

Interdepartmental Health Resources Board minutes and reports

Series Number

B1112

Summary

These records document the development of studies and projects to meet the needs of rehabilitation clienteles served by state agencies. The minutes include exhibits in the form of correspondence; proposals for studies and projects; and report drafts, critiques, and revisions. The plan and drafts of the committee's final report list its activities; information exchanged; advice provided; and studies, reviews, and plans undertaken. The appendices include an estimate of the prevalence and rehabilitation needs of disabled persons; state services statistics; and a directory of training programs.

Creator

• New York (State). Interdepartmental Health Resources Board

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Title

Heritage area management plans

Series Number

21793

Summary

This series documents establishment of and provides information on the history and cultural resources of heritage areas. Each management plan includes description of area boundaries; inventory of cultural resources; goals and objectives statement; types of area uses; potential property acquisitions; proposed exhibits and programs; cost/benefit analysis; cultural resources preservation techniques; organizational structure; environmental reviews; park planning schedule; schedule for park development and State-issued approval; and photographs, other images, and historical records.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Heritage Areas System Bureau

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Title

New York State Office of Mental Health Bureau of Planning Coordination statewide mental health plan development schedules

Series Number

B1365

Summary

This series consists primarily of planning documents and research materials used to produce five-year comprehensive plans for mental health services. The plans generally include an executive summary of significant events, goals, and setbacks; a statement of goals, strategies, and objectives; sections on administration, finance, operating costs, capital plans, research, framework for prevention and serving target groups, and service supply and demand estimates. Also included are records of and interdepartmental Working Group on Mental Health.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Mental Health. Bureau of Planning Coordination

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Title

Budget request files

Series Number

14273

Summary

The series consists of copies of appropriations requests made by various state agencies, including requests for capital construction. Also included are Division of the Budget examination unit files that analyze and make recommendations about these requests. These records include extensive background material, supplemental agreements, technical reports, budget bulletins, fact sheets, briefing books, policy issue reports and recommendations, summaries, press releases, lease agreements, financial planning material, budget recommendations, and projections.

Creator

• New York (State). Division of the Budget

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Title

Tabulation of public lands owned by the State of New York

Series Number

B2440

Summary

This series consists of tabulations of data gathered from state agencies showing public lands owned by New York State, specifically those acquired by the state between 1937 and 1939. The data was gathered by the Division of State Planning. The tabulations include descriptions of each parcel of state owned land, acreage total, a map reference number, and handwritten annotations by division planning members.

Creator

• New York (State). Executive Department. Division of State Planning

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Title

Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Heritage Areas System Bureau program planning files

Series Number

21794

Summary

This series consists of planning documents and correspondence related to the creation, development, and evolution of the New York State Heritage Areas Program and New York State Urban Cultural Parks Program. The purpose of these programs has been to develop, preserve, and promote the state's cultural and natural resources "as an expression of [New York] state's heritage." The records document the purpose/objectives of the program, suggested community designations and legislative structure, as well as marketing and outreach functions.

Creator

• New York (State). Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Heritage Areas System Bureau

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Title

Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation plans, photographs, and working files

Series Number

B0928

Summary

This series contains files kept by the secretary relate to the Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation activities. The series provides information on the work of the committee, design of the proposed shrine, and other displays of the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation during the centennial of the Civil War. The shrine was designed for the Education Building in Albany, but was never built.

Creator

• University of the State of New York. Planning Committee for the Shrine for the Emancipation Proclamation

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Airport Commission files

Series Number

B2500

Summary

This series includes meeting minutes, resolutions, plans, and studies of the Republic Airport Commission. This commission, which consists of Department of Transportation officials and representatives from the local community, sets policy for the airport and studies the relationship between airport operations and the surrounding community.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation

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Title

Executive Director's outgoing correspondence files

Series Number

18940

Summary

This series includes mostly letters and memoranda from the executive director of the Low Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission to consultants; site planners; federal, state, and New York City Personnel; and job applicants. The correspondence documents activities and topics such as the development of site classification criteria; method and site certification; communications; draft regulations; development of quality assurance guidelines and techniques; and selection of method and site to deal with the state's low-level radioactive wastes.

Creator

• New York (State). Low Level Radioactive Waste Siting Commission

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Title

Subject, correspondence, and administrative files

Series Number

19040

Summary

The New York State Archives acquires and preserves state government archival records; provides records management services and training to state agencies and local governments; and promotes preservation and access to historical records statewide. These records consist of correspondence, reports, budget materials, fiscal and personnel records, publications, legislative materials, and policy and planning documents created by the State Archivist for setting policy, developing programs, and overseeing operations for the State Archives.

Creator

• New York State Archives. State Archivist

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Title

Education Department departmental long range plan

Series Number

B0587

Summary

This series consists of a general planning statement and individual planning statements for major program or administrative areas in the Education Department including Center on Innovation; Vocational Rehabilitation; Research and Evaluation; Cultural Education; Higher and Professional Education; Science and Technology; Intercultural Relations in Education; Elementary, Secondary and Continuing Education; and Regents Examination and Scholarship Center.

Creator

• New York (State). Education Department

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Reports and administrative plans relating to aerial photography

Series Number

B2319

Summary

This series contains reports on such topics as a proposed aerial mapping survey of the state and automation of the base mapping program, generated by the New York State Department of Transportation's Base Mapping Unit.

Creator

• New York (State). Department of Transportation. Base Mapping Unit

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