CSI will use Waban’s Secure Records Service

Foster’s Daily Democrat    Thursday, August 19, 2010

 SANFORD/SACO – Two nonprofit social service organizations looking to work smarter and support each other in a fiscally challenging environment have decided to work together.  Counseling Services, Inc. (CSI), a community mental health agency serving southern Maine, has hired Secure Records Management Systems (SRMS), a subsidiary of Waban Projects, Inc., to handle the mental health agency’s confidential document destruction needs. 

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August 9, 2010        Interview by Kayla Collins

 A conversation with Neal Meltzer, executive director of Secure Records Management Systems in Sanford

What is Secure Records Management Systems?

We’re a confidential information destruction business. SecureRMS is a social enterprise of Waban Projects, a nonprofit social services agency also in Sanford that provides services for children and adults with developmental disabilities. We provide service to businesses and organizations in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, with services including paper shredding, media destruction, hard disk destruction and, in the near future, digital imaging. We provide locked security bins in various sizes and styles at no charge, and our 32-point “Chain of Custody” system ensures that from the time confidential materials are placed in the security bins to when the shredded paper is baled and recycled by a domestic vendor into tissue and other paper products, materials stay secure and confidential. Our policies, processes and procedures meet or exceed national, third-party certification requirements for the confidential information destruction industry.

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Shredding Their Way to Success

Journal Tribune Weekend  April 17/18, 2010

Staff Writer Tammy Wells

 

SANFORD ~ What do you call a start-up company that provides a needed service, employs people, produces revenue and contributes to a greener environment?

Most savvy business owners would call it a model for success.

The owners of Secure Records Management Systems, known as SecureRMS, call it a social enterprise.  SecureRMS is a confidential information destruction business; in short, they shred documents in a secure setting.  The company, which opened for business one month ago, is owned by Waban Projects, a non-profit agency that has provided services for people with developmental disabilities for more than 40 years. 

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Value of Work Articulated at Public Hearing

Journal Tribune         Thursday, April 29, 2010

SANFORD – John Devoid enjoys his work.  So do Mike Liberty and Bonnie Sue Kibbey.  So the three of them shared a bit about their work experiences Tuesday during a public hearing of the Town Council on a state grant application that would provide training funds for Waban Projects, Inc.

There was no action required on the part of the council, as the panel at an earlier meeting had already signed off on the application for a $40,000 Public Service Community Development Block Grant from the state.  The public hearing is a requirement of the grant application process. 

If the application is successful, the grant will help provide funds so Waban can train disabled adults to work at their new business, a confidential records destruction company called Secure Records Management Systems. 

The total project cost is $288,000 with Waban investing about $248,000, said Town Planner James Gulnac. 

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Two local businesses creating new jobs

Article published May 6, 2010

 SANFORD — Two local businesses are moving ahead with plans to expand and add new jobs.

Town councilors heard presentations last week from Craig Cunningham of Maine Manufacturing LLC and from Neal Meltzer, executive director of Waban Projects, Inc. Both companies are applying for funds through the state’s Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.

Maine Manufacturing plans to purchase additional machinery and equipment in order to expand its operations at its Community Drive facility and is seeking a $300,000 CDBG Development Fund loan to finance half of the cost of the purchase. Since Maine Manufacturing cannot apply directly for the Development Fund loan, Cunningham requested that the Town of Sanford apply on the company’s behalf. 

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