MoneyVigo County Budget Committee · Aug 12, 2026 · This meeting · Full transcript

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

Three separate delta panels show a 200,000-dollar approval from Fund 8895, a 100,000-dollar approval from Fund 8899, and election-day worker pay increasing from 175 to 250 dollars per day. The panels use separate scales. — Visual summary from the reviewed highlight. Source details follow.

Who it touches

Vigo County election-day poll workers
Vigo County court-record users

Tracked in the archive

Vigo County Clerk's Office

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.

Sources

Clerk requests $200,000 more for digitization and a pay raise for election workers, 56:040:56:04 (56 minutes 4 seconds)
Election-day pay raised from $175 to $250 a day, 56:290:56:29 (56 minutes 29 seconds)
Committee approves the clerk's fund requests, 57:240:57:24 (57 minutes 24 seconds)
$200,000 from Fund 8895 approved for the digitization project, 1:00:281:00:28 (1 hour 28 seconds)
$100,000 from Fund 8899 approved for scanning court records, 1:02:281:02:28 (1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds)
Records date back to the 1800s, 1:02:531:02:53 (1 hour 2 minutes 53 seconds)

Outcome

Approved on voice votes

Approved on voice votes.

Clerk requests $200,000 more for digitization and a pay raise for election workers — cued to 0:56:04 (56 minutes 4 seconds)

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