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Commissioners adopt $15 recording fee to fund demolition of blighted properties
Summary
Resolution #1 of 2025 authorizes the Recorder of Deeds to collect up to $15 per recorded deed or mortgage to be deposited into a Demolition Fund for blighted property demolition.
Forest County Commissioners approved Resolution #1 of 2025 to create a Demolition Fund financed by an additional recording fee. Under the resolution, the Recorder of Deeds may collect up to $15 for each deed or mortgage recorded; those fees will be deposited into a fund to be used exclusively for demolition of blighted properties.
Treasurer Stacey Barnes noted that the county could not open the new account until the resolution was approved at a meeting; commissioners acknowledged that and said they would address account opening at a subsequent meeting. Commissioner Patrick F. Kline moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Robert J. Snyder, Jr. seconded; the motion passed unanimously.
