AGENCY: Box Elder County (Utah). Pioneer Care Center

SERIES: 5228
TITLE: Green Thumb Program case files
DATES: 1994.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological, thereunder alphabetical by employee name

DESCRIPTION: These files document the care center's participation in the Green Thumb Program. This is a program designed to improve the economic and social conditions of older Americans and rural communities in providing essential community services and promoting the employment and training of older Americans. The Green Thumb Program is sponsored by the National Farmers' Union and is funded by the U.S._Department of Labor. Participants are low income persons 55 years and older who work an average of 20 to 24 hours per week and are paid directly by the program. The care center receives no funding for participating.

The files include time cards (pay period, dates, times in and out); Green Thumb employment form (enrollee name, address, job title, social security number, beginning and ending dates, contributor's name and address, phone, county, type of project, nature of work, date, number hours worked plus holidays, sick hours, classification of in-kind supervision hours, supervisor's initials, total hours of supervision multiplied by rate of pay and total, other itemized costs, cost contribution and amount totals, worker's signature, and supervisor's signature); time sheets (county, name, address, social security number, phone, host agency address, phone number, enrollee's signature hours worked, sick hours, personal leave, totals, enrollee change of address, any change in work schedule, enrollee's and supervisor's signatures); performance review form (name, date, job title, review of performance, and host agency comments); enrollee job description; work schedule; medical examination form; memoranda; and surveys.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

APPROVED: 12/1990

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in Office for 3 years after final expenditure report submitted and then destroy.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Legal

This disposition is based on federal requirements expressed in 29 CFR 89.54 (1990) which provides that "each grantee shall retain for a period of at least three years all financial records, supporting documents, statistical records, and all other records pertinent to the project."