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Vermont State Archives & Records Administration
1078 Route 2, Middlesex
Montpelier, VT 05633-7701
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Main Line: 802-828-3700
Fax: 802-828-3710
Office Hours: 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM, M-F
Reference Room: 9 AM to 4 PM, M-F
VSARA > Manage > Information Governance > Standards > VCLAS > Activities
There are thousands of specific tasks performed by public employees during the normal course of business to meet their agencies' core functions and responsibilities. While the overall function or context for every task varies from agency to agency and department to department, the actual activities are not necessarily different. Below is a list of common government activities.
Note about Activities: Activities are identified and defined by the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration (VSARA) through the record appraisal and scheduling process. The list below is not a comprehensive list of activities and only includes activities that have been approved for use on record schedules. Agencies should refer to their record schedules for activity metadata assigned specifically to them, their business functions and their records.
| Authorized Term | Definition | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the system of recording and summarizing business and financial transactions and analyzing, verifying, and reporting the results. | 1002 |
| Acquiring | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with obtaining ownership of an asset through purchase or gift. | 1114 |
| Adjudicating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with hearing and settling claims or complaints by a judicial or administrative body. | 1108 |
| Administrating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with directing the business affairs and human and material resources of an organization, project, or enterprise, involving primarily the formulation of policy. | 1102 |
| Admitting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with providing the right or a means of entrance. | 1138 |
| Advising | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with giving advice or offering counsel or recommendations. | 1003 |
| Appointing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with naming to or placing in an office or position. | 1004 |
| Arbitrating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the settlement of disputes, especially between labor and management, by a neutral party authorized to appraise the facts and arguments and make a decision binding upon the disputants. Distinguished from "mediation" in which a neutral party proposes a solution but has no authority to make a binding decision. | 1097 |
| Assessing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with officially saying what the amount, value or rate of something is; taxing or charging someone or something; and/or requiring a person, business, etc. to pay a particular amount of money. | 1170 |
| Authenticating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with determining the legitimacy of a document or other artifact, or validating a document, as done by an authorized person. | 1106 |
| Budgeting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with planning, coordinating, and allocating financial resources and expenditures. | 1012 |
| Certifying | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with officially attesting that something is valid or meets a standard, or, with regard to people, that a standard degree of qualification has been met. | 1107 |
| Condemning | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the condemnation of private property by a public authority for public use using the powers and legal procedures of eminent domain. | 1116 |
| Consulting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with providing of advice and sometimes other services by professionals in the field of their special expertise. | 1020 |
| Contracting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the entering of two or more legally competent parties into a binding agreement to do or not to do something, subject to specified terms and conditions. | 1126 |
| Developing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with growing something to a later or more advanced or expanded stage. | 1153 |
| Disciplining | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with applying corrective actions or imposing penalties for unsatisfactory or unprofessional performances. | 1075 |
| Employing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the ongoing activity of providing individuals with and paying them for work. For the action of engaging the services of a person or persons for wages or other payment, use "hiring." | 1032 |
| Enforcing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with ensuring compliance with laws or regulations. | 1033 |
| Evaluating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with determining the significance, worth, or condition by careful appraisal or study. | 1098 |
| Extraditing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with giving up or delivering an individual to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority. | 1161 |
| Granting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the transfer of funds from a government body or private foundation to another unit of government or private individual for a project deemed in the public interest. | 1110 |
| Hiring | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with engaging the services of a person or persons for wages or other payment. For the ongoing activity of providing individuals with and paying them for work, use "employing." For the concept of the degree or extent of the provision or availability of paid work to the population, use "employment." | 1045 |
| Identifying | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with recognizing or establishing someone or something as being a particular person or thing. | 1099 |
| Inspecting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with examining or reviewing officially. | 1101 |
| Investigating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with examining the particulars in an attempt to learn the facts about something hidden, unique, or complex. | 1100 |
| Leasing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with granting use or occupation of property under the terms of a contract. | 1127 |
| Lending | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with giving money on condition that it is returned and that interest is paid for its temporary use. | 1157 |
| Licensing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with granting authority to an individual or group to exercise a certain privilege that, without such authorization, would constitute an illegal act, a trespass, or a tort. | 1059 |
| Litigating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with taking legal action or carrying on an action by judicial process. | 1113 |
| Maintaining | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with keeping a structure, machine, process, and system in a condition of good repair or efficiency. | 1121 |
| Managing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with controlling the business affairs and human and material resources of an organization, project, or enterprise, involving primarily the application rather than the formulation of policy. | 1103 |
| Marketing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with promoting for sale goods or services. | 1062 |
| Monitoring | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with observing and collecting information about something over time or distance for some specific purpose. | 1063 |
| Operating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with controlling the functioning of a structure, machine, process, and system. | 1120 |
| Pardoning | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the action of an executive official of the government that mitigates or sets aside the punishment for a crime. | 1160 |
| Permitting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with authorizing an individual or group to take some specific action. | 1104 |
| Planning | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with selecting short- and long-term objectives and the drawing up of tactical and strategic plans to achieve those objectives, especially in a formal project proposal or scheme. Includes project scoping./td> | 1067 |
| Prosecuting | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the commencement and continuance of legal actions, especially criminal proceedings. | 1129 |
| Publishing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with issuing printed, taped, or otherwise reproduced records of knowledge in any medium for sale or distribution to the public. | 1074 |
| Recording | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with entering a transaction in a book of public records, notably instruments affecting the title to real property. | 1077 |
| Registering | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the formal or official recording of items, names, or actions. | 1109 |
| Regulating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with controlling according to rules, laws, or requirements. | 1080 |
| Releasing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with discharging people from an institution, enterprise, or obligation. | 1081 |
| Remediating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency. Includes corrective action to clean up an environmentally contaminated site to eliminate contamination or reduce the amount to an acceptable level. | 1130 |
| Representing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with serving as the official and authorized delegate or agent for another person or organization. | 1156 |
| Reviewing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with going over or examining critically or deliberately. | 1105 |
| Rulemaking | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the process used to adopt, amend or appeal a procedure or rule pursuant to the Vermont Administrative Procedure Act. | 1128 |
| Securing | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with guarding from danger or risk of loss. | 1155 |
| Supervising | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with observing and directing the execution of a task or activity or the work of someone. Also includes watching over someone in the interest of their or others' security. | 1088 |
| Terminating | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with concluding or discontinuing an activity, program, or job position. | 1091 |
| Training | This activity type is reserved for tasks associated with the act, process, or art of imparting knowledge and skill. | 1093 |
Vermont State Archives & Records Administration
1078 Route 2, Middlesex
Montpelier, VT 05633-7701
Phone & Hours
Main Line: 802-828-3700
Fax: 802-828-3710
Office Hours: 7:45 AM to 4:30 PM, M-F
Reference Room: 9 AM to 4 PM, M-F
