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Chairman Scurlock felt the question is not the microfilm process but rather the reproduction machine, and he believed if you bought a different machine, you could blow the plat up to any size. Mr. Musick agreed that the present process can reduce it down to a postage stamp size, but it can't expand it back out. Commissioner Eggert questioned how big we want the plat books that are going to be used every day to serve people up in the Planning Department, for example. She felt we could get almost back to having to use the full size. She personally, after 6-7 years staring at plats when she was on the Planning >; Zoning Commission and taking anything she could find the enlarge the print, experienced a great deal of frustration and believed the people who work with them each day must feel equal frustration. Chairman Scurlock asked how our Planning staff feels about this, and Director Keating advised that they do have a magnifying glass they use a lot when reading the plat books; however, they understand the Clerk's problem because there are many plats where they cannot read the dedicatory Language even with a magnifying glass, and this language is very important when they are trying to find out what was dedicated and who owns roads. Commissioner Wheeler felt there is not much sense in stor- ing records that are not completely usable. The Chairman concurred that there is a problem, but he was not sure this is the correct way to solve it. If the problem can be solved by us budgeting for some additional equipment to get everything in a readable state, that would seem the solution rather than solving one problem and creating another. Mr. Musick continued to express his objections to having plats that would consist of three or four pages which he felt could result in chaos down the road as there is always the possibility that you could lose a page. 27 ,JUL 2 6 1988 BOOK 73 P GC 2.073