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MAR 3 <br />1982 BUN 9 FxE <br />PURCHASE OF LANIER WORD PROCESSOR FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY <br />The Board reviewed Attorney Brandenburg's memo and <br />recommendation re purchase of the Lanier Word Processor as <br />follows: <br />TO: Board of County DATE: February 25, 1982 FILE: <br />Commissioners of <br />Indian River County <br />SUBJECT: Lanier "No Problem" Mord <br />Processor --County Attorney's <br />Office <br />FROM: Gary M. Brandenburg REFERENCES: <br />County Attorney <br />The County Attorney's Office on December 16, 1981, entered into a <br />sixty day trial program with the Lanier "No Problem" Word <br />Processor. The Word Processor was delivered on January 15, 1982. <br />The trial pericd ends March 16, 1982. During the trial paried we <br />have compared this system with the IBM Word Processor now available <br />and used by the County Commission and Clerk's Office and feel that <br />the Lanier "No Problem" is_bptter suited to our particular needs. <br />In most law offices each attorney will. be assigned a full-time <br />secretary and other secretarial or clerical help will be available <br />to handle scheduling, filing, receptionist and telephone answering <br />duties. In the County Attorney's Office there is one full-time <br />secretary performing all these functions fortwo full-time <br />attorneys. Word processing equipment is essential to optimize the <br />capabilities of both attorneys and the secretary. <br />The cost of leasing the system 'for sixty days was as follows; <br />Installation <br />Training <br />Support <br />Service <br />Ribbons <br />Diskettes <br />Total <br />$575.00 of this amount <br />of the system. <br />$175. 00 <br />250.00 <br />125. 00 <br />125.00 <br />80. 00 <br />70. 00 <br />$825.00 <br />to be credited <br />There are two means to purchase the system: <br />towards the purchase <br />1. Outright purchase of the system at a cost -of $13,972.00. <br />This alternative would save the County $3,935.16 in <br />interest payments. <br />1.1M <br />2. A lease purchase for three years at 9-1/2o interest. <br />Monthly payments under such a lease purchase would <br />3= <br />