The District shall comply with, and adopt and maintain policies as necessary for compliance with, applicable records retention, destruction, and disclosure requirements, including Colorado Open Records Act, State Archives and Public Records law, and various consumer privacy legislation.  The District Administrator or his or her designee, is hereby designated as the Official Custodian pursuant to the Open Records Act.  In the event there is any question as to whether the District is permitted to comply with an Open Records Act request, the Custodian of records via the District Board shall forward such request to the District’s legal counsel. 

As allowed under section 24-72-205(6), C.R.S., the District may,  at its discretion, charge the maximum fees allowed by Colorado law for paper copies, or research and retrieval cost which exceed one hours. The requestor must approve the cost estimate before the District will begin work on fulfilling the records request, and must submit payment in order to receive the request.

The District shall follow the Document Retention and Destruction Schedule as adopted and approved by the Colorado State Archivist.