2027 CAMRO Annual Conference

The 64th annual conference. Three days of instruction, the spring business meeting, the awards banquet, and the only reliable opportunity in the Clearwater calendar to ask three hundred colleagues how they handled something.

Full attendance is worth 8 education points; a single day is worth 3.

Programme

Tuesday 13 April — pre-conference

• 12:00 pm — Registration opens
• 1:00 pm — Committee meetings (Education, Legislative, Membership)
• 3:30 pm — Board meeting
• 6:00 pm — New attendee reception. If it is your first conference, come to this.

Wednesday 14 April

• 8:00 am — Registration and breakfast
• 9:00 am — Opening session: the State Archivist on the 2027 schedule revision
• 10:30 am — Breakouts: Severance and redaction in practice · Minutes that survive a challenge · Your first election
• 12:00 pm — Lunch and the spring business meeting
• 1:30 pm — Breakouts: HB 1149 and ephemeral messaging · Disposition logs · Licensing workflows for towns under 2,000
• 3:00 pm — Expo and refreshments
• 4:00 pm — CCRO-M capstone presentations
• 6:30 pm — Awards banquet

Thursday 15 April

• 8:00 am — Breakfast
• 9:00 am — Breakouts: Executive session wording · Electronic records for one-person offices · Fee estimation without arguments
• 10:30 am — District caucuses
• 12:00 pm — Lunch
• 1:30 pm — Panel: three clerks on the request that went wrong
• 3:00 pm — Roundtables by municipality size
• Evening free

Friday 16 April

• 8:30 am — Breakfast
• 9:00 am — Closing session and the Q&A the Legislative Committee runs every year
• 11:30 am — Close

Registration

Member rate $310 through 1 March, $370 after. Non-member $455. Single day $145. Two conference scholarships cover registration and two nights — applications close 31 January.

A room block at the Harbour Center is held until 13 March.

Cancellation

Full refund to 13 March, half to 1 April, none after. Substitutions are free and welcome at any time — send a colleague.