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Commissioner Scurlock had a third question. He believed we had a proposal in 1982/83 by the Civic Association about moving to a process that would enable a person who came in seeking some type of permit, to go to a central area and through computeriza- tion receive all the information he needed in that one location. He felt we have done an excellent job on this but believed there are still some bumps in the road - for example, the problem with Attorney Bob Jackson's son where it seems it was discovered very late in the process that there was one additional requirement. Commissioner Scurlock continued to emphasize that we need to streamline the whole process and wondered if it would be better to have one consultant working with you on this activity as opposed to having a traffic consultant and then another one working with water, with sewer, with roads, etc. Director Keating did not think so because he felt the technical functions of traffic analysis are quite different than development of computerized data bases. He informed the Board that just this last week we switched over to a permit tracking system for the Code Enforcement area. We bought canned software almost a year ago and have spent time developing it and now are getting an opportunity to see how it works. This is a very complex area with many different functions, and he believed that it requires the specific expertise of a firm with the knowledge of computerization. Commissioner Scurlock believed that there are several firms that do traffic engineering that also do CAD systems, but he was happy with Director Keating's answer. DEG .a ON MOTION by Commissioner Eggert, SECONDED by Com- missioner Bird, the Board unanimously approved staff recommendation as set out in memo dated November 27, 1989, and approved Budget Amendment #024, as follows: 27 BOOK Ic UGr J. a r