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Recorder urges continued tech fee to finish back-scan; commissioners approve supplemental journal fund for 2026
Summary
Lucas County Recorder Ashford asked the board to extend a technology fee to support back-scanning county records to 1980 and presented the office's 2026 budget request. The commissioners approved a separate journal fund supplement to support the recorder's 2026 technology needs.
Recorder Ashford and office manager David Perkins presented the recorder's proposed 2026 budget and a request to extend a technology fee into 2026 to complete a mandated back-scan of records to 1980.
Ashford told commissioners the recorder's office has scanned deeds and plats back to 1980 and was working through mortgages and indexes. "We currently sit at 1985," he said,…
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