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Walker County adopts fees to fund clerk's records preservation and digitization plan
Summary
The county approved a county-clerk statutory fee and archive fee after a multi-year preservation effort presentation; clerk said the fees will fund digitization and restoration without raising the tax rate.
Walker County commissioners approved a county-clerk statutory records fee and archive fee on Monday after a presentation outlining a multi-year plan to preserve and digitize the county's historical records. The vote passed with no recorded opposition.
The clerk told commissioners that the office has roughly $840,000 in combined retained funds for preservation projects and that the fees are authorized by state law. "Our ultimate goal is to digitize all of our records," Kier, County Clerk, said, adding the plan will reduce handling of fragile originals and make documents…
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