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Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett
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RDA: 2516
Database ID: 2580
Record Series Title: Baccalaureate Education System Trust (BEST) Files
Record Series Abstract: Record series includes the BEST Prepaid Plan (educational services plan), the TNStars College Savings 529 Program (educational investment plan), and the Tennessee Investments Preparing Scholars (TIPS) program. Records contain prepaid tuition contracts and TNStars enrollment forms, TIPS applications and tax information, payroll deduction files, ACH files, confirmation letters, statements and other records.
Record Series Active: Yes
Cut Off at End of: Other
If Other, Explain: Upon account inception
Total Retention: 50 Years 0 Months
Retention End Action: Permanent
Disposition Notes: Until May 2012, BEST documents were placed on microfilm rolls shared with TCRS with a retention of 75 years. This microfilm was converted to digital images in 2015 and documents are stored electronically. The original microfilm is maintained for reference for 75 years in the State Records Center. Electronic documents are stored for 50 years in agency for reference, then destroyed after verification of data. Data from documents is maintained permanently on agency database.
View Signed Form: Form Not Received
Worksheet
Worksheet ID: 2777
Record Location: Andrew Jackson Building, 15th floor
File Arrangement: alpha and numeric
Media Format Generated: Both
Media Format Stored: Electronic: Raster Image
Date Range: 1997 to current
Annual Accumulation: 10 Megabyte electronic
Current Volume: 2.2 Gigabyte electronic
Record Value: Administrative, Fiscal, Legal
Audit Requirements: Both
Reference Frequency:
Current Year per Month: 30
Past Year: 0
2 - 5 Years: 0
Over 5 Years: 0
Data Update Frequency: Daily
Information Shared Outside of State: Yes
If Shared, List Agencies: IRS; college institutions
Essential Record: Yes - Original
Essential Record Stored: Essential record stored electronically in agency database
Essential Record Media Type: Electronic
Confidential: Yes
Confidential Legal Citation: T.C.A. § 49-7-825, College Savings disclosure of personal information. The Board shall not disclose personal information about any person obtained by the board in connection with the purchase of tuition units or the making of contributions to any educational investment trust fund except under certain circumstances.
Media Recommendation: Current Format
Media Recommendation Other:
Agency Retention: 50 years
Agency Retention - Years Active: 50 years
Agency Retention - Years Inactive: 0 years
Records Center Retention Period: Microfilm containing BEST and TCRS images is stored at State Records Center for 75 years, due to the 75-year retention for TCRS.
Final Disposition after Retention Expires: Destroy
Legal Citation: TIPS statute- Public Chapter 359 amended T.C.A. § 65-5-113 and T.C.A. § 49-7-808 for the creation of TIPS and the transfer of the monies from the Small and Minority-owned business program to establish TIPS.
Record Sample: No Sample
Legal Documentation: No Legal Documentation
Electronic Records Plan Inventory
System Name: BEST
IT-ABC Number:
Hardware Description: BEST is a client side application. The Database is in Oracle 10g and resides in the OIR Shared Oracle environment.
Software Description: The database resided on an Oracle 10g server in the OIR Shared Oracle environment
System Location: OIR Shared Oracle environment in Data Center South
Backup Procedures: OIR will conduct backup procedures. These procedures consist of daily incremental backups and weekly total backups on the weekend. The back-up servers are Hitachi and EMC SANs. The process for Backing Up the data from OIR’s South Data Center is to mirror the information at OIR’s North Data Center, and then create a weekly backup tape that is currently stored by the Vendor: Iron Mountain Incorporated Iron Mountain Nashville 6005 Dana Way Nashville, TN 37013 800-899-4766
Disaster Recovery: OIR conducts disaster recovery. This procedure is a prioritized process of enabling critical and essential applications first and then continuing through the priority list to less significant applications. Disaster Recovery begins with the utilization of the OIR’s North Data Center for both operations and data. If both OIR’s South Data Center and OIR’s North Data Center are out of operation, new operations will begin by acquiring appropriate hardware and software from a third party supplier, and restoring data from the offline tape backups stored with the current vendor: Iron Mountain Incorporated.
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Contact Information
Contact Name: Janice Patton
Job Title: Records Manager
Address 1: Andrew Jackson Building, 14th floor
Address 2: 502 Deaderick St.
City: Nashville
Zip: 37243
Phone: (615) 253-8757
Email: janice.patton@tn.gov
Agency: Dept. of Treasury
Agency Head: David H. Lillard, Jr.
Director: Mary Griffin
Allotment Code: 30901
Status
Action Requested: Revision
Comments
  Date Comments
Records Management Division (RMD): 00-00-0000
Tennessee State Libary and Archives: 00-00-0000
Comptroller Audit Review: 0000-00-00
Agency: 00-00-0000
RMD Director Recomendations: 00-00-0000
Signed Form Received: 0000-00-00
PRC Meeting Date: 00-00-0000
PRC Comments:
PRC Action: Pending
RDA History
ID RDA PRC Reviewed PRC Action
948 2516 2015-03-30 Approved
2580 2516 0000-00-00 Pending