Overview
The County Clerk's Office is the focal point of the County Courthouse. This office will take requests for services and/or point citizens in the right direction to obtain the services needed.
Responsibilities
Services and functions provided by the County Clerk's Office include:
- Working closely with the County Commission
- Recording minutes of the Board of County Commissioners Meetings
- Assisting townships and watersheds in annual budget preparations
- Maintaining tax rolls and real estate tax statement information
- Adds and abates and maintenance of records on the tax rolls
- Maintaining transfer records
- Setting and certifying the mill levy for all county tax districts
- Maintaining tax statement mailing lists
- Administering oaths of public office
- Maintaining election records and proceedings (including candidate filings, voter registration, ballot printing and preparation, election workers hiring and training, and ballot tabulations
- Working closely with the County Appraiser's and County Treasurer's offices
- Issuing moving licenses
- Issuing Cereal Malt beverage licenses
- Administering Driver's Licenses and State ID's
- Assisting citizens with homestead and tax forms
- Maintaining land records from the 1800s to present
- Maintaining vital statistic records from 1800s to 1911