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(7) Personal Computers for Personnel Office The Board reviewed memo from Personnel Director Blankenship: ---------------------------------------- TO : CHARLES P. BALCZUN COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR SUBJECT : FY 1987-88 CAPITAL BUDGET DATE : MAY 2., 1988 We are attempting to upgrade the data information input, storage, retrieval, and processing in the Personnel Division. The first step in that effort took place with the purchase of an IBM- Personal BMPersonal System 2/Model 60 computer last Fall. Our goal is to have an intra -office network to process all data. The next step in this effort is to purchase two additional computers to serve the network. One will be used in place of the current data entry terminal to the main system in Data Processing. The other will be used in the personnel processing function, i.e. new employee processing. To accomplish our goal of a fully automated office, I am attempting to purchase two IBM Personal System 2/Model 30 computers. My purchase requisitions dated April 8, 1988 have been held by the Budget Director because they do not conform to the approved capital item purchase list as contained in the 1987-88 budget. Since I did not participate in the construction of that budget, I do not know what was meant by the approval of those items. For example, two "CRT's" approved for purchase at $1,500 each leaves me wondering what the intent is there. A "CRT" is a cathode ray tube, a television screen if you will. At $1,500 each they are very expensive televisions. That is clearly not what we want or need. If the intent of the approved capital budget was to allow the purchase of two computers, as I believe, then the item is simply mis-labeled• The purchase of two typewriters at $200 each is also mystifying. A standard office typewriter can be purchased for between $800 and $1,000. Again, I do not comprehend the intent of the item. A file cabinet at $200 and a hanging file at $400, as approved in the budget, are simply not needed. We have erged, purged, and otherwise consolidated the files in the office to the point where we have adequate file space. 1 am requesting that you petition the Board to allow the capital budget for the Personnel Division be corrected to reflect the needs of the division. Those needs are currently the purchase of two IBM Personal System 2/Model 30 computers at $1,446 each, and two IBM Color Display monitors at $432 each. Copies of the requisitions and subsequent correspondence in this matter are attached. 07 Wm. A! Blankenship, AEP Director of Personn 7 MAY 1 0 1988 BOOK 72 E E. 2S?