Clerk’s Office is Responsible For:
The Clerk is the historian of the community, for the entire recorded history of the town (city) and its people is in his or her care.

Who We Are
Over the years, Municipal Clerks have become the hub of government, the direct link between the inhabitants of their community and their government.

Specific services provided by the Clerk’s Office include staff support to the Town Board, conducting elections, business licensing, liquor licensing, special event permits; Town Board agenda and packet preparation; legal publishing and recordation of documents; and records management including public requests and staff research. In the Town of Monument, the Clerk and Treasurer positions have been divided, Budget and Finance responsibilities and duties fall upon the Treasurer.

The eminent political scientist, Professor William Bennett Munro, writing in one of the first textbooks on municipal administration (1934), stated: "No other office in municipal service has so many contracts. It serves the mayor, the city council, the city manager (when there is one), and all administrative departments without exception. All of them call upon it, almost daily, for some service or information. Its work is not spectacular, but it demands versatility, alertness, accuracy, and no end of patience. The public does not realize how many loose ends of city administration this office pulls together."

These words, written more than 70 years ago, are even more appropriate today.

Certified Municipal Clerks follow a professional and personal Code of Ethics established by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks. Those principles are:

• To uphold constitutional government and the laws of my community;
• To so conduct my public and private life as to be an example to my fellow citizens;
  
• To impart to my profession those standards of quality and integrity that the conduct of the affairs of my office shall be above reproach and to merit public confidence in our community;
• To be ever mindful of my neutrality and impartiality, rendering equal service to all and to extend the same treatment I wish to receive myself.
• To record that which is true and preserve that which is entrusted to me as if it were my own; and
• To strive constantly to improve the administration of the affairs of my office consistent with applicable laws and through sound management practices to produce continued progress and so fulfill my responsibilities to my community and others.

Our Mission
It is the mission of the Town Clerk's Office to provide excellent customer service, record, integrate, preserve, protect and disseminate Town information; to collect and provide licensing and permitting services; to conduct elections pursuant to applicable law, and to provide board and commission support in an efficient, effective, ethical and democratic manner.