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Recovered costs should be ACTUAL costs

From: Jim Johnson
Date: 2/21/98
Time: 6:01:57 PM
Remote Name: 38.217.62.132

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The cost basis, if any, should be no more than the ACTUAL cost of maintaining the system; not the profit center technique used for photocopies. You can get copies of a document at a commercial copy service for 3 to 4 cents per page. It does not cost the Clerk of a court $1.00 per page to make the same copy. This is "revenue enhancement" or public service discouragement disguised as cost recovery. Why not run the court as a service to the public?

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