Dunn County committee adopts updated land-use fee schedule and formalizes register-of-deeds online-access fees

The Dunn County Planning, Resource and Development Committee voted on Oct. 15 to approve two measures affecting local fees and online document access.

First, the committee approved an ordinance repealing and recreating register-of-deeds language to formalize current online-access contracts and fees. Staff told the committee the rewrite replaces an outdated program that ceased in 2018 and clarifies that the register of deeds may enter online-access contracts and set associated user fees through the annual budget process. Staff said the county’s software vendor has proposed a 15% increase to licensing fees; the office has collected about $42,000 in remote-access and online-access revenues through September and reported paying roughly $15,000 in related license fees so far this year.

Second, the committee adopted an updated county land-use division fee schedule.…