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Commissioners question large recorder fund balance and legal limits on fee use
Summary
Budget staff told commissioners a state law limits how recorder fees may be used; commissioners discussed the recorder's multi-million-dollar fund balance and options such as better apportioning ISF charges and capital projects to the recorder fund.
Budget staff told commissioners Oct. 2 that state law constrains the uses of recorder fees and that the county has observed a growing recorder fund balance that merits review.
At the session one commissioner observed that the recorder's fund balance is large; in the discussion a figure of about $40 million in the recorder-related fund was raised. Budget staff responded that state law requires fees be spent only on permissible recorder services and that the county must be careful in reassigning or…
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