County clerk seeks continued $10 fee to fund large-scale records digitization
County Clerk Sharon Ferguson asked the court to approve continuation of a $10 archival fee on non-court documents to fund digitization projects; she cited prior projects costing about $77,108 and $73,006 and reported $45,189 currently in the archive fund plus a $625,000 CD.
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County Clerk Sharon Ferguson presented the county clerk's records-archive plan, explaining that the office has undertaken multiple digitization projects and needs continuing revenue to preserve deteriorating books in county custody. "The last project I did was paid for in May 2026, where I got ... data to archives ... and that cost me $77,107.99," Ferguson said, and she later referenced another January 2026 project at roughly $73,006.86.
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