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County clerk outlines 2025 statistics and sets goals including three 2026 elections
Summary
County Clerk Stacy Loar-Porter presented the 2025 annual report covering vital records, circuit court activity and the 2025 election cycle, and listed 2026 goals including staff training, an office security remodel and to "Successfully conduct 3 elections in 2026."
Stacy Loar-Porter, Berrien County Clerk, presented the office's 2025 annual report at the Committee of the Whole meeting, outlining vital records statistics, circuit-court case processing numbers and outcomes from the 2025 election cycle. She also set departmental goals for 2026 to strengthen operations.
Loar-Porter detailed operational priorities: providing staff training and education to improve efficiency; completing a security remodel of the Vital Clerks office; conducting civil-clerk training and beginning Alternative Dispute Resolution services; correcting reporting errors in JWorks; implementing recommendations from the MAPP completed with the State Court Administrative Office (SCAO); and to "Successfully conduct 3 elections in 2026." Those items, she said, are intended to improve service delivery and compliance with reporting requirements.
The clerk's report provides the board with metrics that support grant applications and other funding justifications, and includes court-processing and election-cycle statistics from 2025. The transcript does not record dollar amounts or detailed operational timelines for each goal, only the list of objectives presented to the board. The board took no formal vote on the clerk's goals during the recorded meeting; the topics were presented for review and future action.
