Calhoun commission president Chip Westfall and County
Clerk Jean Simers receive preservation grant check
The Calhoun County Commission has received a $17,356 preservation grant for Calhoun Clerk Jean Simers office to purchase a color scanner, one map cabinet and Mylar sleeves to encapsulate plat maps, and to index deed books digitized.
Simers said, "This project will directly help the public to access records in addition to assisting preservation."
The statewide grants of $410,409 came from the Records Management and Preservation Board and $79,950 in survey and planning grant funds.
The Records Management and Preservation Board was created by the West Virginia Legislature in 2000 to develop a system of records management and preservation for county governments.
Records Management and Preservation Board Grant recipients in area counties:
Ritchie County Commission:
$15,000 to digitize and microfilm the county's earliest order books, 1881-present, and to encapsulate deed, lease, and will index books in the county clerk's office.
Roane County Commission:
$9,969 to purchase roller shelving for deed and deed of trust books, and two public computers that will enhance access to deed books digitized by the RMPB Statewide Preservation Project in the county clerk's office.
Wirt County Commission:
$18,536 to index deed books digitized by the RMPB Statewide Preservation Project in the county clerk's office, and to purchase moveable track shelving for inactive long-term case files in the circuit clerk's office.
Ritchie County received
$7,000 to conduct an architectural survey in Pennsboro. | 
