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Davis County recorder seeks assistant, tech upgrades to tackle 450,000-document backlog
Summary
Chief deputy recorder asked the budget committee for a confidential administrative assistant and investments in online access and document-processing tools to address a backlog of roughly 450,000 unprocessed records and improve fee recovery.
Dakota Worth, Davis County chief deputy recorder, told the Budget Committee the recorder’s office will ask for funding in the 2026 budget for a confidential administrative assistant and several technology upgrades intended to improve public access and help the office process a backlog of older records.
Worth said the office has seen revenue volatility — peaking in 2021, dipping in 2023 and modestly recovering in 2024 — and that year-to-date revenue was about 5% higher than the prior year. “So much of our revenue stream is outside of our control,” Worth said, “it’s dependent on market volume and recorded documents that come through the office.”
The office’s main budget request is for an administrative assistant to preserve institutional knowledge ahead of two anticipated retirements whose combined service the presenter estimated at about 41…
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