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APR 2 4 1990 BOOK P(PAGE Commissioner Wheeler advised that he had asked the Sheriff's Finance Officer, Ricky Dees, if they have looked into this proposal enough to know whether the overhead involved in market- ing the CAD system is low enough that it won't cancel out any profit to be realized. Commissioner Scurlock assumed that if it is a consortium, others participated in it, and he believed those other entities would have the same ability to generate revenues from the market- ing of their product; so, how do you figure out the percentage of their participation? Quentin Voyles, Data Processing Manager for the Sheriff's Department, informed the Board that the intent of marketing the product is to provide the source of recouping some of the expense that has been put into development of the software to provide some funds, not only to offset the cost of marketing, but also to offset the costs of future software, hardware maintenance, and hardware costs. He informed the Board that Data General, who is their hardware vendor, is taking the majority of responsibility for the marketing. Commissioner Scurlock asked if the United States has been drawn up into districts with the Consortium in dividing that up. Mr. Voyles explained that, first of all, the entire Consortium isn't looking at marketing the software. There aren't many agencies that can get .involved to the extent that we are hoping to get involved. St. Louis County is really the only other agency that is permitted to get involved because of their circumstances, but we are not marketing the same hardware. Commissioner Scurlock noted that, in other words, they could not market their product in Florida, and Mr. Voyles believed that possibly they could, but we would not be marketing in the St. Louis area. Commissioner Scurlock felt there should be a contract to spell this arrangement out so that we don't spend our money on the marketing and then they come in and sell their product. He 32