Paperless document recording: saving time and money in Broward County; Broward County's use of electronic document recording demonstrates how governments can use technology to improve operational efficiency and better serve their customers.(Brief Article)

Editor's note: Each year GFOA bestows its prestigious Awards for Excellence to recognize outstanding contributions to the practice of government finance. This article describes the 2001 winning entry in the Technology category.

Ensuring that resources grow at the same pace as workload is always challenging for public entities. This challenge often leads to an ongoing quest for increased operational efficiency. Since the early 1990s, the Broward County Records Division has looked to technology to improve the efficiency of the recording process. Most recently, this drive for efficiency resulted in the implementation of electronic document recording. Electronic ...