Yuma County Board of Supervisors approve digitalization project contracts

YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - The Yuma County Board of Supervisors recently approved two contracts to help the Recorder's Office preserve over 150 years of records, with the two contracts totaling to more than $1 million.

The board approved a contract with Kofile Inc. for indexing services and another with Tyler Technologies for image conversion, and the project is being funded by the American Rescue Plan Act, and does not use taxpayer dollars.

County Recorder David Lara shares why this is necessary for the historical documents.

"We're just waiting for the billing to be finished, and we could bring back those documents, they are historical documents and we have to preserve them, but this way because their digitized, anybody can look at them and the documents will be saved," Lara explained.

The public will be able to access the searchable collection by next summer.