The Dunkirk City School District recently received $74,625 of a $6.8 million grant outlay by the New York State Archives’ Local Government Records Management Improvement Fund.

The grants went to 111 local governments, school districts, and educational institutions across the state to help improve records management systems to better serve the public, State Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced.

The Dunkirk City School District was the only entity in Chautauqua County to get a grant in this round of funding.

The grants support a variety of projects, including aiding local governments in managing paper records; converting historical documents and microfilm to electronic formats; and backing up archival and vital records like maps, deeds, mortgages, cemetery records, meeting minutes, and other essential documents.