Description
    The Town Clerk is a two year elected position. The Town Clerk’s Office serves as Danbury’s keeper of records and all documents that pertain to the City of Danbury and its residents. The Town Clerk’s Office follows the State of Connecticut Statutes to efficiently maintain all land records, maps, trade names, vital records, military discharges, and minutes of all commission meetings. The office issues and maintains a variety of licenses and plays a major role in elections, primaries, and referendums, including the issuance of absentee ballots.

    All land records are indexed and scanned and put into volumes. Additional copies of land records are kept off site in the event of lost or damage to the current records. The land record indexes have been made available via the City website. This office also provides certified copies of any land records filed into the Danbury Land Records.

    The Town Clerk functions as the Registrar of Vital Statistics. Any birth, marriage, civil union or death which occurs in the City of Danbury will be on file in this office. This means we are able to issue certified copies of these vital records.

    The Town Clerk acts as the guardian of the City Seal, affixing the seal only to proper and valid municipal documents. Finally, all records in the Town Clerk’s Office are public with the exception of birth certificates and veteran’s discharges.

Successes
    Every June dog owners are required to renew their dog license per State Statute.

    This year was the first year the Town Clerk’s Office sent reminders to current licensed dog owners. A reminder is already printed in the legal notices section of the paper however, this office took the added step of mailing the reminders. The office also purchased a new dog license program. This was purchased from the Town Clerk’s Historic Documents Preservation Account which is allocated for the Town Clerk’s Office. This program will help the office keep better records of the dog licenses as well as more accurate reports which are required to be sent to the State. The office will use this new program to continue to mail reminders each year to current dog license owners.

    Funds were also used from the Historic Documents Preservation Account to add additional shelving and reorganization to our vital cage to accommodate the growing number of vital records.

    The Clerk continued to use grant funds to print the land record indexes in archival form as mandated State of Connecticut Statutes. This will protect and preserve the indexes. The Clerk has also completed classes and passed the certification test to become a Certified Connecticut Town Clerk, making her the first Certified Connecticut Town Clerk for the City of Danbury.

    Every day the Town Clerk’s office continues to provide excellent customer service to each and every person who visits the office. The Clerk’s office will continue to strive to be a public friendly environment where the taxpayer comes first.