The Guadalupe County Clerk's fiscal 2026-27 archive plan projects about $300,000 a year in records archive fee revenue for preserving and managing public records.
The projected revenue would support work on historical files and the equipment and technology used to maintain them, according to the clerk's plan.
The proposed work includes preservation, storage equipment, and software and hardware for county records. For residents who need older documents, the practical question is whether the proposed work improves the condition of those files and the county's ability to retrieve them. The plan describes intended uses of the money; its revenue figure is an annual projection.
Records and proposed uses
The clerk's plan describes records spanning the 1700s to the present. It identifies preservation and restoration of those records, protective storage equipment, and records software and hardware as uses for archive funds. Those categories show the breadth of the work, from care of aging documents to the systems used to manage them. They do not, by themselves, assign a dollar amount to each purchase or preservation project.