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Saturday, August 01, 2009
Ind. Gov't. - "FLOYD COUNTY: Officials look to protect important documents"
A story today in the New Albany News & Tribune by Chris Morris:
The recent fire at the Madison courthouse not only destroyed portions of the historic building, but also damaged important documents inside.What if the same thing happened at the City-County Building in New Albany?
Recently, a group of Floyd County leaders met with homeland security officials to discuss that possibility. They not only looked at photos from what happened following the Madison fire, but discussed ways to protect precious documents housed in the City-County Building.
“It makes you look at what you have and what if it happened here,” said Floyd County Clerk Linda Moeller. “You have to make sure you back up your material and store it off-site.”
Which is what the county has been doing. Several court records and other documents have been removed or copied from the City-County Building and taken to “Iron Mountain” — an underground storage facility in Louisville. The Mountain actually sits below the Louisville Zoo.
“Our basement storage was awful,” Moeller said. “We didn’t know what we had. So we gutted it.”
Moeller said jail trustees, her employees and others worked to clean the area out and put in new shelving. Some items had to be destroyed.
“It’s really nice down there now,” she said. “Everyone in the office goes down there and works. They know their files and their court.”
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 1, 2009 10:06 AM
Posted to Indiana Government