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Peoria County committee approves $150,000 to expand circuit clerk document-scanning program
Summary
A Peoria County committee voted to appropriate $150,000 from general fund reserves to continue a circuit clerk office program that hires youth to digitize court documents, citing cost savings and state retention policy compliance.
Peoria County committee members voted to approve a $150,000 budget amendment to extend a circuit clerk document-scanning program that uses temporary youth workers to digitize county court records.
The funding, taken from general fund reserves and moved into the circuit clerk’s department budget, will cover scanning operations through the end of the year, Circuit Clerk Bobby said at the committee meeting. "Again, we're asking for a hundred and 50,000, and what that'll do will take us to the end of the year with our program with our summer kids helping," Bobby said.
The amendment was considered within the oversight committee’s dollar threshold and carries the board staff’s support. Scott, a county staff member who reviewed the request with Chief Financial Officer McCord, told the committee…
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