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County clerk seeks part-time hire to index 365,000 legacy land records rather than pay outside vendor
Summary
The Kerr County clerk told the Commissioners Court the county has roughly 365,000 documents in an unsearchable field dating to 1986 and asked to add a dedicated part-time employee to index records by property description rather than hire an outside contractor with a roughly $500,000 price tag.
The county clerk told the commissioners the office needs a part-time position to index legacy land records that are not searchable by property description after a system migration and said contracting the work would be far more expensive.
The county clerk said about "365,000 documents out there that need to be reviewed, and it goes back to 1986," and proposed hiring a part-time…
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