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WAYS TO SOLVE THE DATA PROCESSING PROBLEM, BUT POINTED OUT THAT <br />RIGHT NOW THE COUNTY DOES NOT HAVE A STRONG DATA PROCESSING MAN TO <br />WORK WITH. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE QUESTIONED MR. BURGER IN REGARD TO THE FIGURES <br />IN THE COMPARISON CHART, AND MR, BURGER STATED HE TRIED TO COMPARE <br />..APPLES WITH APPLES" AND INCORPORATE ALL EXPENSES $O THERE WOULD BE <br />A REALISTIC COMPARISON. HE NOTED WITHOUT A CPI WRITER, THERE WILL BE <br />A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN THE COST FIGURES FOR THE DATA CENTER. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED WHAT PROGRAMS THAT WE NOW HAVE ARE <br />INCLUDED, <br />MR. BURGER STATED THERE ARE EIGHT SYSTEMS INCLUDED. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE NOTED THAT THE ST. LUCIE DATA CENTER DOES. <br />NOT HAVE BUDGETARY PROGRAMS, AND MR. BURGER REPLIED THAT THEY ACTUALLY <br />DO HAVE SOME BUDGETARY PROGRAMS BUT ARE NOT USING THEM IN ST. LUCIE. <br />THESE WOULD JUST NEED TO BE CHANGED A LITTLE FOR INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. <br />THE CHAIRMAN INQUIRED ABOUT THE -INITIAL START-UP COST, AND <br />MFS, BURGER STATED THAT THESE COSTS ARE BILLED BY THE DATA CENTER AS THEY <br />DO THE WORK TO GET A PARTICULAR SYSTEM ON-LINE, BUT IT WOULD AMOUNT <br />ROUGHLY TO $11,000 FOR THE EIGHT SYSTEMS. HE CONTINUED THAT HE DID <br />A CASH-FLOW STUDY AND THE DATA CENTER HAS A BIT OF A CASH-FLOW <br />ADVANTAGE TO IT. THE INITIAL START-UP COST IS GREATER FOR AN <br />IN-HOUSE SYSTEM.. <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED IF WE WOULD HAVE AN IMMEDIATE ON- <br />-LINE SITUATION AND .JOHN BURGER STATED WE WOULD. HE NOTED THEY <br />RECOMMEND THAT THE COUNTY LEASE SOME TERMINALS, AND THOSE FIGURES <br />ARE INCLUDED. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT INQUIRED ABOUT THE EXISTING HARDWARE. <br />MR. BURGER NOTED THAT THIS IS ON LEASE WITH IBM AND REQUIRES <br />A 90 -DAY TERMINATION NOTICE. THERE ARE SOME SHIPPING CHARGES INVOLVED <br />IN RETURNING IT. HE STATED THAT THE SOFTWARE WOULD NOT BE USABLE , <br />i <br />BUT HE FELT THIS SHOULD BE THOUGHT OF AS AN OPERATING EXPENSE. <br />COMMISSIONER LOY ASKED WHAT CONSIDERATION WAS GIVEN TO ANY <br />TYPE OF COMPUTER OTHER THAN THE ONE WE HAVE. <br />j MR. BURGER STATED THEY DID LOOK AT OTHER COMPUTERS, BUT NOTED <br />THAT IBM DOES HAVE A MACHINE WHICH IS QUITE CAPABLE OF HANDLING THE <br />j <br />COUNTY'S NEEDS. THEY DO NOT, HOWEVER, HAVE THE APPLICATION PACKAGES <br />JUN 2 219?i <br />�I <br />A <br />