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County clerk seeks $252,500 for records preservation, $90,000 for archive system fees
Summary
Cooke County Clerk requested a $252,500 records preservation project, a $90,000 annual archive service fee and continued funding for a scanning position, saying decades of birth and death records need conservation and digital access.
Cooke County Clerk Pam Neely asked the commissioners court on June 25 to fund a major preservation project for historic birth and death records and to maintain annual archive fees for the county archives system.
Neely said she wants $252,500 from the county’s records preservation fund to treat and preserve birth and death books dating roughly from 1955 to 1970, a block she described as about 95 volumes that are “ragged and falling apart.” She said preservation work increases the physical size of some books — “one birth book can go from one…
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