Lake County Lost and FOUND! $108,183.00
‘Where I come from, you get what you pay for and if not, you get a re-fund’, Becky Lynch responded to the vendor who fell short of delivering on a major media conversion project in the Lake County Recorder Office.
In 2015 the project was contracted to scan in and upload five years of regular document images from 1986 to 1991 into thousands of online digital format. It took longer than anticipated and subcontractor timing and scanning errors piled up, causing mistakes in thousands of document images. After five months of trying to resolve a virtual of document errors and irregularities, discovered intermittently throughout the project, the newly elected Recorder, Becky Lynch, decided that accuracy and completeness of the Public Record was too important to leave to chance. She says, the right thing to do if a contract is unfulfilled, is to get your money back. The invoices had all been paid in 2016 and the money was spent, but that did not deter the free-market thinking, business-minded Recorder. Lake County Recorder Becky Lynch deposited back to Lake County, $108,183.00 on June 1, 2017. These tax dollars, almost lost but now FOUND, were thankfully rescued, and will be put to better use for the people of Lake County.
Contact: Becky Lynch, Lake County Recorder
Office: 440-350-2510 Direct: 440-350-2508
