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Aug. 28, 2006

Interim Mayor Joseph F. Vitale has announced the appointment of Russell K. Dutcher III as Records Manager for Woodbridge Township.

The Records Manager position is funded from a $150,000 Phase Two grant from the state’s innovative Public Archives and RecordsInfrastructure Support(PARIS) program, designed to support municipalities in their public records management and historic preservation efforts.

Dutcher, a resident of Colonia, is an experienced project operations manager and certified genealogist currently serving in the U.S. Air Force Reserve as a Wing Historian/Archivist.

“We have already automated our Building Department records and achieved significant savings in time and expense that are passed on to the taxpayer,” says Mayor Vitale. “The appointment of a fulltime Records Manager will help us expand that efficiency to other departments, especially those that directly service residents.”

Many of the township’s historic records, which include township ordinances, meeting minutes, birth, death, marriage records and pre-20 th-century maps and engineering sketches, are in the custody of various county and municipal departments.

“Through Phase One of the PARIS grant we were able to locate records that date from the Township’s incorporation in 1669,” says Municipal Clerk John M. Mitch . “The PARIS program has already been of tremendous value for Woodbridge and will help us continue upgrading our records management program and preserving our historic documents.”

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