Vigo County clerk wins $300,000 for records digitization and higher pay for election-day workers

What happened

The county clerk's office won approval to raise election-day worker pay from $175 to $250 a day. The committee also approved an additional $200,000 from Fund 8895 and $100,000 from Fund 8899 to keep scanning old court records — some dating back to the 1800s — that have never been digitized.

The outcome

Approved on voice votes.

Sources

• Clerk requests $200,000 more for digitization and a pay raise for election workers, 56:04
• Election-day pay raised from $175 to $250 a day, 56:29
• Committee approves the clerk's fund requests, 57:24
• $200,000 from Fund 8895 approved for the digitization project, 1:00:28
• $100,000 from Fund 8899 approved for scanning court records, 1:02:28
• Records date back to the 1800s, 1:02:53

Also known as: clerk digitization project · election day worker pay · fund 8895 · fund 8899 · court records scanning