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The proposal by IBM is to place the computer in the Elections Office for 60 days at no cost to make sure that we can make the transition from the County's IBM 38. Mrs. Robinson did not believe it would be fair to continue to have approximately $40,000 worth of costs reflected in the Clerk's Data Processing budget for voter registration work that belongs in the Elections budget. IBM's price of $30,000 plus approximately $2,000 for maintenance are very fine prices from the government state contract, and this would be a one-time outlay of $30,000 to operate in the future at the cost of approximately $20,000 a year. Therefore, it.would save the Elections Office and, thus the County, a considerable sum of money. in addition to that it would put the computerization of voter registration under the control of the Supervisor of Elections where it belongs. Chairman Scurlock questioned the $40,000 cost reflected in the Clerk's budget, and asked what amount would be transferred from the.Clerk's budget to the Supervisor's budget. OMB Director Joe Baird felt it would be very difficult to tell exactly how much the Supervisor of Elections actually impacts the Clerk's Data Processing budget. Don Hylton, Director of Data Processing, felt it definitely would impact -the Clerk's Office to remove the labor that is involved for voter registration. He pointed out, however, that this work has been done with the current staffing, which has not increased in the last 4 years, even though the usage by county departments has increased substantially. Mr. Hylton could not say at this time where any one individual would be cut from the payroll, but felt there would be a savings in paper and operation costs of running the system. He could not see how they could cut $30,000-$32,000 out of their budget at this time. Supervisor Robinson pointed out that if the Board approves this computer, it would free up more space for more county SEP 14 19887 °� � FAr �