All departments of the City shall comply with the following:
(a) All department heads shall keep informed as to the latest practices in their particular fields and shall inaugurate, with the approval of the City Manager, such new practices as appear to be of benefit to the public.
(b) Reports of activities and compliance with goals and objectives set by the Council and Mayor shall be provided on a regular basis.
(c) Each department head shall be responsible for the preservation of all public records under his or her jurisdiction and shall provide a system of filing and indexing the same. No public records, reports, correspondence or other data relative to the business of any department shall be destroyed or removed permanently from the files without the knowledge and approval of the City Manager. Such data shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 362. Passed 3-1-94.)