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A TRUE COPY CERTIFICATION ON LAST PAGE • _• - • •- a - •--• RYAN L. BUTLER, CLERK The Recipient shall comply with any Statement of.Assurances incorporated as Attachment E. (23) RECORDS (a) As a'condition of receiving state financial assistance, and as required by Sections 20.055(6)(c) and 215.97(5)(b), Florida Statutes, the Division, the Chief Inspector General of the State of Florida, the Florida Auditor General, or any of their authorized representatives; -shall enjoy the right of access to any documents, financial statements, papers,: or other -records of the Recipient which are pertinent to this Agreement; in order to make audits, °examinations; excerpts, and transcripts. The right of access also includes timely and reasonable access to the Recipient's personnel for -the purpose of interview and discussion related to such documents. For the purposes of this section, the term "Recipient" includes employees or agents, including all subcontractors or consultants to be paid from funds provided under this Agreement. (b) The Recipient shall -maintain all records related to this Agreement for the period of time specified in the appropriate retention schedule published by the Florida Department of State. Information regarding retention schedules can be obtained at: http://dos.myflorida.com/library-archives/records- management/ge nera l-records-sched u les/. (c) Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law (Section 286.011, Florida Statutes) provides the citizens of Florida with a right of access to governmental proceedings and mandates three, basic requirements: (1) all meetings of- public, boards or commissions must be open to the public; (2) reasonable notice.of such meetings.must be. -given; and, (3) minutes ofthemeetings must be taken and, promptly recorded. The mere receipt of public funds by a private entity, standing alone, is insufficient to bring that entity within the ambit of the open government requirements. However, the Government in the Sunshine Law applies to private entities that provide services to governmental -agencies and that act on behalf of those agencies in -the-agencies' performance of their -public duties: If a public agency delegates the performance of its public purpose -to a private entity, then, -to the extent that private entity is performing that public purpose, the Government in the Sunshine Law applies. For example, if a volunteer fire department, provides -firefighting,services to a governmental entity and uses facilities and equipment purchased with public funds, then the.Government in the Sunshine Law applies to board of directors for that volunteer fire department. Thus, to the extent that the Government in the Sunshine Law applies to the. Recipient based upon the funds provided under this Agreement, the meetings of the Recipient's governing board or the meetings of any subcommittee making recommendations to the' governing board may be subject to open government requirements. These meetings shall be publicly- noticed,- open to the public, and the. minutes of all the meetings shall be public records, available to thel public in accordance with Chapter 119, Florida.Statutes. , (d) Florida's Public Records Law provides a right of access to the records of the state and - local governments as well as to private entities acting on their behalf. Unless specifically exempted from disclosure by the Legislature, all materials made or received bya governmental agency (or a private 16