Mary Mahady: Restoring Trust to the Clerk’s Office
The McHenry County Clerk Duties Are Vital and Include:
Chief Election Officer
Chief Election Officer
- Accurate ballot preparation for every precinct
- Procuring and maintaining voting machines
- Recruiting and training poll workers
- Proper conduct of all elections
- Computes every real estate bill in the county
- Collects delinquent tax payments and calculates Enterprise Zone abatements
- Only official in the county authorized to issue, record and maintain birth and death certificates
- Business registrations, Notary public applications, liquor licenses, mobile home files, landfill site applications, lawsuits, and delinquent tax records, etc.
- Attends all county board meetings
- Responsible for keeping an accurate record of all the proceedings of the board
- Preserves all bills of account acted upon by the board
- Records all documents transferring land in order to establish legal ownership
- Records mortgage and trust deeds, assigned when an owner borrows money
- Maintains records of all subdivisions platted within the county. A subdivision plat is a detailed map which defines such specifics as lot sizes, lot number, outside boundary lines, and utility easements
- Makes available to other county officials and the township assessor copies of all documents, plats and deeds conveying real estate filed in the recorder's office during that month
- Review, approve, and provide all requests for FOIA information