BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cantata Essentials//CAMRO//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:CAMRO X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:recertification-refresher-2026@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20260917T170000Z DTEND:20260917T190000Z SUMMARY:Chapter 44 recertification refresher (webinar) LOCATION:https://relay.cantatasites.com/members/camro/signin DESCRIPTION:Two hours over lunch\, ahead of the recertification deadline. W orth **1.5\neducation points**.\n\nNot a substitute for sitting the assess ment — a walk through the three areas\nmembers most often lose marks on: severance and partial release\, retention\nseries that changed in the las t revision\, and executive session announcements.\n\nRecorded and posted t o the member library within a week\, though the recording\ndoes not carry points. Points require live attendance\, which is the Education\nCommittee 's rule and not negotiable at the door.\n\n**Free to members.** Registrati on closes at noon the day before. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2026-09-17-recertification-refreshe r-2026/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:board-meeting-2026-09@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20260924T200000Z DTEND:20260924T220000Z SUMMARY:Board of Directors meeting (online) LOCATION:https://relay.cantatasites.com/members/camro/signin DESCRIPTION:Quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors. On the agenda: the 2027 budget\,\nthe Legislative Committee's position on HB 1149 ahead of t he session\, Institute\nscholarship criteria for 2027\, and the Uplands me ntor shortage.\n\n**Board meetings are open to active members.** You may o bserve\; you may not\nspeak unless invited by the chair\, which happens mo re often than not if you ask\nthe president beforehand.\n\nMinutes are pub lished here within three weeks of approval.\n\n[Board minutes](/resources/ meeting-minutes/) URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2026-09-24-board-meeting-2026-09/ CATEGORIES:Board meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:recorders-day-2026@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20261014T133000Z DTEND:20261014T210000Z SUMMARY:Recorders' Day 2026 LOCATION:Clearwater League of Cities and Towns Fall Meeting\, Fairholm Conv ention Center DESCRIPTION:CAMRO's day within the League of Cities and Towns fall meeting. Worth **3\neducation points**\, and it is where we host the proctored ses sion for the annual\nChapter 44 recertification.\n\n## Schedule\n\n- 8:30 am — Coffee and the autumn business meeting\n- 9:30 am — The State Arc hivist on the 2027 General Retention Schedule revision\n- 11:00 am — Bre akouts: *Ephemeral messaging after HB 1149* · *Election year recordkeepin g*\n- 12:30 pm — Lunch\, included\n- 1:30 pm — **Proctored Chapter 44 recertification session**\n- 3:15 pm — District director elections\, by district\n- 4:00 pm — Close\n\n## The recertification session\n\nNinety minutes\, open book\, administered by the Clearwater State Archives. Bring \nyour municipality's current retention schedule — the Archives permits it and the\nquestions assume you have it.\n\n**Sit it here or sit it onlin e\; you must sit it somewhere before 15 December.**\nCAMRO does not receiv e your result and cannot tell you whether you have\ncertified. The Archive s can.\n\n[About annual recertification](/certification/recertification/)\ n\n## Registration\n\nFree to CAMRO members attending the League meeting. Lunch requires\nregistration by 1 October so we can give the Convention Ce nter a number. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2026-10-14-recorders-day-2026/ CATEGORIES:Training END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:district-11-12-autumn-2026@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20261028T143000Z DTEND:20261028T190000Z SUMMARY:Districts 11 & 12 autumn meeting LOCATION:Quarry Bend City Hall\, Council Chamber DESCRIPTION:The Uplands districts meet together in the autumn\, because twe nty-two\nmunicipalities between them and a two-hour drive to anywhere make s one good\nmeeting better than two thin ones.\n\n- 9:30 am — Coffee\n- 10:00 am — Training segment: disposition logging for one-person offices (**1 education point**)\n- 11:15 am — Open discussion. Bring what you ar e stuck on.\n- 12:15 pm — Lunch\, provided by Quarry Bend\n- 1:00 pm — **District director elections**\, Districts 11 and 12 voting separately\n - 2:00 pm — Close\n\nTravel stipends are available from the scholarship fund for members driving more\nthan 60 miles. Ask the office — this is n ot means-tested and nobody has to\nexplain themselves.\n\nAny member may a ttend any district's meeting. If District 10 is closer to you\nthan your o wn\, come. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2026-10-28-district-11-12-autumn-20 26/ CATEGORIES:District meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:district-4-autumn-2026@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20261112T153000Z DTEND:20261112T193000Z SUMMARY:District 4 autumn meeting LOCATION:Ashgrove Municipal Building DESCRIPTION:- 9:30 am — Coffee\n- 10:00 am — Training segment: minutes after a contested vote (**1 education point**)\n- 11:00 am — Open discus sion\n- 12:00 pm — Lunch\n- 12:45 pm — District director election\n- 1 :30 pm — Close\n\nDistrict 4 covers Fairholm and the Central municipalit ies north of the river.\nFree to members\; lunch requires registration by 5 November. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2026-11-12-district-4-autumn-2026/ CATEGORIES:District meeting END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:retention-revision-webinar-2026@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20261119T180000Z DTEND:20261119T193000Z SUMMARY:The 2027 retention schedule revision — what changes LOCATION:https://relay.cantatasites.com/members/camro/signin DESCRIPTION:Ninety minutes with the Clearwater State Archives on the Genera l Retention\nSchedule revision taking effect 1 January 2027. Worth **1.5 e ducation points**.\n\nThe substantive changes are in GRS 200 (financial) a nd GRS 400 (licensing)\, plus\na new series for body-worn camera footage t hat several municipalities have been\nretaining under a local policy in th e absence of one.\n\nBring your current schedule. A crosswalk from the 202 2 series numbers to the\n2027 ones will be posted to the member library th e week before\, and walked\nthrough live.\n\n**Free to members.** Recorded \; the recording does not carry points. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2026-11-19-retention-revision-webin ar-2026/ CATEGORIES:Webinar END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:new-officers-bootcamp-2027@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20270121T150000Z DTEND:20270122T213000Z SUMMARY:New Records Officers Bootcamp LOCATION:CAMRO Office\, Fairholm DESCRIPTION:Two days for anyone appointed as a records officer in the last eighteen months —\nand for anyone who has been doing it longer and never had this explained. Worth\n**5 education points**.\n\nHeld in January bec ause most Clearwater appointments follow the November\nmunicipal elections \, and because a new clerk's first serious records request\ntends to arriv e in February.\n\n## Day one — the law you cannot avoid\n\nChapter 42 in the morning: what a request is\, what a response must contain\, the\nfive -day clock and the ten-day extension. Chapter 38 in the afternoon: notice\ ,\nagendas\, and the minutes you will be producing next week.\n\n## Day tw o — the desk\n\nThe General Retention Schedule and how to read a series number. The disposition\nlog. The certification you will be asked to sign and what it commits you to.\nThen two hours of open questions with three v eteran clerks\, which runs over\nevery year and is left deliberately unstr uctured.\n\n## Practicalities\n\n**$180 for members\, $260 for non-members **\, lunch both days included. Twenty-four\nplaces. Sign up for [Clerk-to- Clerk](/membership/mentorship/) at the same time —\nmatching runs in Jan uary and a bootcamp cohort makes the best mentees. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2027-01-21-new-officers-bootcamp-20 27/ CATEGORIES:Training END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:legislative-breakfast-2027@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20270209T133000Z DTEND:20270209T200000Z SUMMARY:Legislative Breakfast and Capitol Day 2027 LOCATION:Statehouse Rotunda and Committee Room B DESCRIPTION:Breakfast with the members of the Local Government Committee\, then a morning at\nthe Capitol while the session is live. Worth **2 educat ion points**.\n\n2027's agenda is dominated by **HB 1149**\, which would b ring text messages and\ndisappearing-message applications explicitly under the Public Records Act and\nthe retention schedule. CAMRO supports the cl arity and has been clear with the\ncommittee about what implementation cos ts a municipality with one full-time\nemployee.\n\n## The morning\n\n- 7:3 0 am — Breakfast\, Rotunda. Committee members attend from 8:00.\n- 8:45 am — Briefing: what is moving this session\, and what our position is\n- 9:30 am — Committee Room B. HB 1149 is scheduled for testimony.\n- 11:3 0 am — Office visits. Members are paired by district with their own\n r epresentative\, which is the part that actually works.\n- 1:00 pm — Debr ief and lunch\n\n## If you have never done this\n\nYou do not need to be a lobbyist and you will not be asked to argue. What the\ncommittee wants fr om you is one concrete sentence about your own municipality:\nhow many req uests you handled last year\, how many hours it took\, and how many\npeopl e work in your building. That is the testimony that changes votes.\n\nThe Legislative Committee will help you write it. Say so when you register.\n\ n**Free to members.** Registration closes 1 February for building access. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2027-02-09-legislative-breakfast-20 27/ CATEGORIES:Legislative END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2027-annual-conference@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20270413T170000Z DTEND:20270416T163000Z SUMMARY:2027 CAMRO Annual Conference LOCATION:Lindenport Harbour Center DESCRIPTION:The 64th annual conference. Three days of instruction\, the spr ing business\nmeeting\, the awards banquet\, and the only reliable opportu nity in the Clearwater\ncalendar to ask three hundred colleagues how they handled something.\n\nFull attendance is worth **8 education points**\; a single day is worth 3.\n\n## Programme\n\n**Tuesday 13 April — pre-confe rence**\n\n- 12:00 pm — Registration opens\n- 1:00 pm — Committee meet ings (Education\, Legislative\, Membership)\n- 3:30 pm — Board meeting\n - 6:00 pm — New attendee reception. If it is your first conference\, com e to this.\n\n**Wednesday 14 April**\n\n- 8:00 am — Registration and bre akfast\n- 9:00 am — Opening session: the State Archivist on the 2027 sch edule revision\n- 10:30 am — Breakouts: *Severance and redaction in prac tice* · *Minutes that survive a challenge* · *Your first election*\n- 12 :00 pm — Lunch and the spring business meeting\n- 1:30 pm — Breakouts: *HB 1149 and ephemeral messaging* · *Disposition logs* · *Licensing wor kflows for towns under 2\,000*\n- 3:00 pm — Expo and refreshments\n- 4:0 0 pm — CCRO-M capstone presentations\n- 6:30 pm — Awards banquet\n\n** Thursday 15 April**\n\n- 8:00 am — Breakfast\n- 9:00 am — Breakouts: * Executive session wording* · *Electronic records for one-person offices* · *Fee estimation without arguments*\n- 10:30 am — District caucuses\n- 12:00 pm — Lunch\n- 1:30 pm — Panel: three clerks on the request that went wrong\n- 3:00 pm — Roundtables by municipality size\n- Evening fre e\n\n**Friday 16 April**\n\n- 8:30 am — Breakfast\n- 9:00 am — Closing session and the Q&A the Legislative Committee runs every year\n- 11:30 am — Close\n\n## Registration\n\nMember rate $310 through 1 March\, $370 a fter. Non-member $455. Single day $145.\nTwo conference scholarships cover registration and two nights — applications\nclose 31 January.\n\nA room block at the Harbour Center is held until 13 March.\n\n## Cancellation\n\ nFull refund to 13 March\, half to 1 April\, none after. Substitutions are free and\nwelcome at any time — send a colleague. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2027-04-13-2027-annual-conference/ CATEGORIES:Conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:institute-2027@association-demo.com DTSTAMP:20260821T201322Z DTSTART:20270712T133000Z DTEND:20270716T200000Z SUMMARY:CAMRO Institute — July 2027 LOCATION:Institute of Local Government\, Fairholm State University DESCRIPTION:Five days\, residential\, on campus. The Institute is how most members make real\nprogress toward the CCRO — the week is worth **12 edu cation points**\, a fifth of\nthe credential.\n\nInstruction is by Fairhol m State faculty and by senior Clearwater clerks\, which\nis the combinatio n that makes it work: the law from people who teach it\, the\npractice fro m people who do it.\n\n## The week\n\n| Day | Domain | |\n|---|---|---|\n| Monday | Records law | Chapter 42 end to end. Exemptions\, severance\, de nial\, and the appeal you want to avoid. |\n| Tuesday | Retention and disp osition | The General Retention Schedule\, series analysis\, the dispositi on log\, and the 2027 revision. |\n| Wednesday | Meetings and minutes | No tice\, agendas\, motions\, executive session. Includes a supervised minute -taking exercise from recorded audio. |\n| Thursday | Electronic records | Email\, text messages\, shared drives\, and what HB 1149 would change. Th e hardest day and the one members rate highest. |\n| Friday | Public servi ce | Requester relations\, fee estimation\, and half a day on elections ad ministration. Close at 3:00 pm. |\n\n## Practicalities\n\nResidential in K estrel Hall on campus. Single rooms\, breakfast and lunch\nincluded\, one group dinner on Wednesday.\n\n**Member rate $890** including accommodation . Municipal members may send a\nsecond attendee at $740. Four Institute sc holarships cover tuition\, lodging and\na travel stipend — applications open 1 December and close 31 January\, with\npriority to municipalities un der 2\,500 population and to Districts 11 and 12.\n\nRegistration opens 1 February and the week sells out most years by the end of\nApril. Forty pla ces.\n\n## Bring\n\nYour municipality's current retention schedule\, one r eal records request you\nhave handled\, and one you are stuck on. Thursday afternoon is built around what\npeople bring. URL:https://association-demo.com/events/2027-07-12-institute-2027/ CATEGORIES:Institute END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR