Working group advances deaccession and procurement policy updates, plans September presentation

The board’s strategic‑plan working group reported progress on revising the APP deaccession policy and related procurement and acquisition processes. Chelsea said the draft includes two templates: one for reviewing pieces under consideration for deaccession and a second flow for decisions when an item is to be retained temporarily or re‑evaluated.

Chelsea said the working group would present a fuller draft and accompanying templates to the full board in September and that Tim agreed to produce a flowchart to accompany the revised procedures. The goal is to make criteria and the stepwise process clearer — for instance, how to document deterioration, when to notify the state, and how to handle community input and potential transfers or relocations.

Board members said the additional structure — a checklist, templates and a flowchart — should reduce future ambiguity when items are reviewed for conservation, relocation or deaccession.