2003 Archival Advocacy Award Recipient:
Connecticut Representative Steve Fontana
Steve Fontana is an attorney and title searcher who, according to
Connecticut State Librarian Ken Wiggin "witnessed first hand the need to
preserve land and other records maintained at town halls throughout
Connecticut."
He and then Senator Timothy Upson pushed through PA-146 "An Act Concerning
real Estate Filings and the Preservation of Historical Documents" in 2000.
The legislation imposes a three dollar fee on all documents recorded on land records in the town clerk's office. One dollar goes to the town for its preservation projects and two dollars go to the state library and is deposited into the Historic Documents Preservation Account. &0% of that fund goes back to the towns in the form of preservation regrants and 30% is used by the State Library for overhead and to manage its own preservation efforts.
Mr. Wiggin ended his letter of nomination: "Without Mr. Fontana's dedication to the preservation of municipal records and his perseverance in seeing the bill through the legislative process, Connecticut would not have the wherewithal to preserve and manage its historical records."
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