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Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett
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RDA: 2516
Database ID: 948
Record Series Title: Baccalaureate Education System Trust (BEST) Files
Record Series Abstract: Record series includes all three BEST programs/plans: the BEST Prepaid Plan (no longer accepting new enrollment), the TNStars 529 College Savings Program, and Tennessee Investments Preparing Scholars (TIPS). Records include, but are not limited to: prepaid tuition contracts, payroll deduction forms, ACH forms, payment coupons, applications, beneficiary information, and confirmation letters. Records also include the participant's payment information for purchasing educational units.
Record Series Active: Yes
Cut Off at End of: Other
If Other, Explain: Files are cut off 25 years after the beneficiary\'s 18th birthday. If the beneficiary is over 18 years of age upon opening the account, files are cut off 25 years after the account\'s inception.
Total Retention: 25 Years 0 Months
Retention End Action: Destroy
Disposition Notes: Until May 2012, BEST documents were placed on microfilm rolls shared with TCRS with a retention of 75 years. This microfilm will be converted to digital images in 2015 and documents will be stored electronically. In June 2012, BEST stopped filming; all incoming documents are scanned and kept on Treasury network drives.
View Signed Form: Form Not Received
Worksheet
Worksheet ID: 948
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
Essential Record: Yes - Original
Essential Record Stored: essential record stored electronically in agency database
Essential Record Media Type: Electronic
Confidential: Yes
Confidential Legal Citation: TCA 49-7-825 (BEST -- Disclosure of personal information)
Media Recommendation: Current Format
Media Recommendation Other:
Agency Retention: 25 years
Agency Retention - Years Active: 25 years
Agency Retention - Years Inactive: 0 years
Records Center Retention Period: Microfilm containing BEST and TCRS images is stored at Richards and Richards for 75 years, due to the 75-year retention for TCRS.
Final Disposition after Retention Expires: Destroy
Legal Citation: N/A
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.
Data Migration Description: Data Migration will occur when support for the existing file format moves from Current to Twilight or Obsolete, or when software or hardware systems changes require the movement of RDA electronic data from a specified format to a different file format. Annual reviews will be conducted by the Treasury Records Officer and the Treasury IT Staff. In the event of system upgrade or replacements, plans will be created and executed to migrate all data and documents to the new platform.
Metadata Description: Records contain prepaid tuition contracts, payroll deduction forms, ACH forms, payment coupons, applications, beneficiary information, and confirmation letters. Records also include the participant's payment information for purchasing educational units. This is a dynamic Oracle Database, and the data resides in an Oracle .dbf format. Content Size: 2.2 GB Location: South Data Center, located in Smyrna
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: 309
Status
Action Requested: New RDA
Comments
  Date Comments
Records Management Division (RMD): 02-26-2015 No recommended changes.
Tennessee State Libary and Archives: 02-26-2015 No recommended changes.
Comptroller Audit Review: 2015-02-27 We have reviewed RDA 2516 from an audit standpoint. We concur with the recommended retention and disposition specifications.
Agency: 03-02-2015 Agency concurs.
RMD Director Recomendations: 03-04-2015 RDA 2516 is a request to revise an RDA. The retention period will remain twenty-five years and the format will be electronic. Recommend approval of RDA 2516.
Signed Form Received: 2015-03-04
PRC Meeting Date: 03-30-2015
PRC Comments: Approved by the PRC.
PRC Action: Approved
RDA History
ID RDA PRC Reviewed PRC Action
948 2516 2015-03-30 Approved
2580 2516 0000-00-00 Pending