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DuPage GIS division seeks higher recorder fee as transactions fall; committee signals support for $30 proposal
Summary
The county GIS division told the finance committee it faces a roughly $857,000 shortfall and recommended raising the recorder-collected GIS fee. The consultant recommended raising the $21 fee to $28; committee members signaled support for a $30 level and directed staff to return with updated analysis in two weeks.
The DuPage County Finance Committee on Tuesday heard a presentation from the county Geographic Information Systems (GIS) division detailing a funding shortfall and directed staff to pursue an increase in the recorder-collected GIS fee, with committee members expressing preliminary support for a $30 per-document fee.
Anthony (last name not provided), a county GIS lead, told the committee the GIS division is not funded from the general fund but by a per-document recording fee collected by the recorder’s office. The current fee is $21 per real-estate recording. The division’s annual operational cost is about $3.5 million; based on a multi-year average of recordings the division currently budgets at roughly $2.6 million from the fee, leaving a…
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