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DEC 15 1982 BOOK 5.2 Frk �C 4 <br />do. She noted that she has already talked to Dr. Burns and <br />Mr. Hunter. <br />THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. <br />It was voted on and carried unanimously. <br />PURCHASE OF IBM DISPLAYWRITER SYSTEM FOR COMMUNITY <br />DEVELOPI- ENT DEPT. <br />The Board reviewed staff memo, as follows: <br />TO: The Honorable Members DA-rE: <br />of the Board of County <br />Commissioners <br />November 29, 1982 FILE: <br />DIVISION HEAD CONCURRENCE: SUBJECT: IBM Displaywriter System <br />Patrick Bruce King, AI <br />P. Joyce Hamilton <br />REFERENCES: Assistant <br />It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration <br />by the Board of County Commissioners a` their regular meeting on December <br />15, 1982. 3 <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS: <br />Community Development Division has a continual backlog of typing and deadlineE <br />are not being met.due largely to the high volume of typing drafts of rezon= <br />ings, site plans, subdivision plat approvals; ordinances; resolutions; <br />repetitive zoning notices to property ownors; repetitive notices to local <br />engineers and architects, -in addition to special projects. Additional <br />time is consumed, revising and correcting -these drafts to produce the <br />final copy. These revisions result in the document being retyped, adding <br />further to the existing backlog of typing. <br />Currently, Community Development has one clerk --typist, two secretaries, <br />and one administrative assistant using three IBM Selectric II typewriters <br />and one older IBM typewriter. These four employees do the typing for <br />eleven other employees in addition to other duties. <br />fiLTERP3ATIVES AND ANALYSIS: <br />The T13111 Displaywriter System is a mouular, dis'r;ette-based word processing <br />syste?ti, capable of creating and editincr text. Using the text processing <br />functions, an operator can create, revise, and electronically store documents <br />on a diskette. The operator can alsc use a spelling verification aid to <br />compare the words in a document to two stored dictionaries. The Logicalc <br />function allows the operator to enter text and numeric data to produce <br />reports using the built-in regression capability. <br />121 <br />