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DuPage recorder defends $680,000 microfiche contract and recent staff pay adjustments amid board criticism
Summary
Recorder Liz Chaplin told the board that a contract with US Imaging will replace deteriorating microfiche and improve office air quality; many county board members criticized large raises earlier given in the clerk's office and pressed for transparency about hiring, budget transfers and salary studies.
DuPage County Recorder Liz Chaplin told the county board that a recently identified problem with deteriorating microfiche required remedial work with a vendor, US Imaging, and that the contract is intended to replace defective film and address an air‑quality problem in the recorder’s office.
Chaplin said staff identified “acetate/vinegar syndrome” affecting older microfiche and that the vendor will remove bad film and deliver polyester film expected to last centuries. Chaplin described the outcome as partially salvageable: the new film will be usable in the office retrievers and will reduce the strong vinegar odor that had required staff to use gloves. “We’re going to get that vinegar smell out…they’re going to take that old film away and destroy it, and then we’ll have the good images that we can use,” she said.
Anthony, an information-technology staff member…
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