ALBANY — Linn County Commissioners Roger Nyquist, Sherrie Sprenger and Will Tucker approved spending $228,774 to digitize thousands of records housed in the Assessment and Taxation Office during their Feb. 6 board meeting.
Deputy Assessor Matt Pitcher told the commissioners a company named Scan-It, based in Beaverton, will scan and digitize about 250,000 pages of deed books, 1,500 mylar maps and more than 90,000 microfilm images.
There are microfilm reading machines in the Assessor’s Office…