Marion County Clerk Steve Fox says beginning July 1st the cost of recording real estate transactions is going up $9 per document.
Fox says it is a state mandate to support the Regional Housing Authority.
“That program was established years ago. It is supposedly used to help housing across the State of Illinois even though the County Clerk and Recorder Association felt differently. We’ve been fighting this for about three years now. They did get it through the legislature. But it is something we were able to get a task force. Hopefully, we will be able to seat some of the clerks and recorders on the task force. Our concern is the money is not being distributed evenly amongst the state or some proportion at all in Southern Illinois.”
Even though they can’t stop it, Fox told the Marion County Board they had to approve the increase. They voted to do so at Tuesday night’s meeting.
The board also lowered the speed limit on Perrine Street from Walnut Hill Road to the Centralia City Limits at the railroad tracks from 55 miles per hour to 30 miles per hour. That’s the speed limit once you enter the city of Centralia. County Highway Engineer Mike McCormick says the change is also justified by a daycare facility and the Rotary Field complex being along that half-mile section of roadway.
The Marion County Board also obligated Rebuild Illinois motor fuel tax funds to two projects. $691,000 was dedicated to the upcoming Odin Road improvement project which is largely being paid for through a federal grant. $746,000 was allocated to the current Heinzmann Road rebuilding project from the village of Kell to the Route 161 Extension.
