Within the last year the McHenry County Recorder’s office has implemented Phase I of the County Recorder’s Integrated System for McHenry County’s land record documents, such as deeds, mortgages, liens and releases. It is an MS Windows-based indexing system that provides enhanced search and retrieval capabilities over our old product and creates a foundation for the future based on current and proven technology.
We also just finished implementing Phase II, a new document recording, receipting and cash management system, to streamline our work flow and ease end-of-month financial reporting duties while maintaining our strict financial auditing guidelines.
I would like to thank all of my hard-working, dedicated employees for their effort in learning our new computer system, not to mention the significant amount of extra time needed to implement the system. Also I would like to thank the public users of our records for their unparalleled patience, ideas and partnership.
We soon will be implementing a new document imaging system designed to store and retrieve document images electronically. This will put an end to the problem of where and how to store paper and will make the document retrieval system more accessible and user-friendly to the public, including our remote access users.
Last but not least, we have made sure all the software and new hardware we have been implementing is already Year 2000 compliant, and any existing hardware is rapidly being enhanced to comply.
In fact, we will be expanding our land records document numbers to begin with a four-digit year instead of two-digit as it has in the past (such as 1998R100 instead of 98R100). All of our existing electronic information will be expanded as well.
This is one less thing the public has to worry about concerning the Year 2000. The McHenry County Recorder’s office is ready for the new millennium.
