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<br />vide meda.cal advise over the telephone. The County Manager proposed this
<br />center dispatch the County Sheriff's Deputies, the Chapel Hill, Carrboro
<br />and Hillsborough Police, the Orange, South Orange, New. Hope, and Efland
<br />Rescue Squads and seven rural volunteer fire departments. Mr. Gattis
<br />stated that it is difficult to propose a dispatch center budget for the
<br />coming year. Unforeseen problems affecting telephone costs have arisen
<br />with Southern Bell Telephone Company since the transfer of the telephone
<br />utility, However, the best estimate of when the center might become
<br />operational is January 1, 1978. This date is not firm and cannot be more
<br />clearly identified at this time as equipment delivery dates are still tenta-
<br />tive. Beyond that, installation is a substantial task. With these facts
<br />- in mind, the County Manager proposed a budget that brings on board a communi-
<br />cation center chief during July of 1977, and ten dispatchers in October,
<br />1977. Tt is difficult to determine how many dispatchers will actually be
<br />needed, however, ten positions will allow two dispatchers on the 1st and 2nd
<br />shifts, one on the 3rd shift anda chief that can assume responsibility for
<br />center operations, develop center procedures and perform some dispatching
<br />services. The tentative budget request is $126,500. Of this amount, $86,50D
<br />is requested for personnel, and $20,000 for Telephone cost. One time costs
<br />are: Console at $18,000, Alterations at $1,00, and furniture at $500.
<br />The next Department presenting budget request was the Data Processing
<br />Department. The County Manager introduced Keith Brooks, from the Data
<br />Processing Department. Mr. Gattis presented ~ko the Board a tentative Data
<br />Processing budget.
<br />B1860 (8 months @ $4,500 per month) $36,000
<br />Software (8 months @ $400 per month) 3,200
<br />7 Terminals (8 months maximum 7,200
<br />Telephone (9 months Estimates) 1,350
<br />Personnel 46,500
<br />Supplies (Stock paper, office supplies) 3,000
<br />Rent (Building @ $200 per month) 2,400
<br />Disk Pack 1,500*
<br />Equipment (Forms Handling) 3,500*
<br />Travel for systems evaluation 7,500*
<br />Building Renovation 4,000*
<br />Office Equipment (Desk, Chairs., Disk Storage) 1,300*
<br />_. ... Total $117 , 450
<br />*Of this $117,450, $17,800 would be a.one time expense.
<br />This amount does not include any utilities. With a B1860, the power
<br />requirements would probably be a 200 AMP service, and it would require
<br />approximately four tons of air conditioning. With this system, it would
<br />allow the County to install an-line interactive transaction oriented systems
<br />in the following areas: The applications of Finance, Voter Registration
<br />and Tax Collections would be installed and operational on November 1st,
<br />when the computer oges on rental. Food Stamps, Indexing, flee t,maintenance
<br />and othertax applications would be operational during the 1977-78 fiscal
<br />year, The payroll system could be transferred from the City of Durham,
<br />the voter's registration and food stamps from Cobb County, Georgia and the
<br />General hedger and the Tax Collections from Mecklenbury County. All of
<br />these systems would require changes and modifications to convert them to
<br />the County's use.
<br />The County Manager stated that one problem was in regard to space for
<br />the Data Processing Department. He persently is negotiating for .the rental
<br />" of a building on King Street. Other possibilities mentioned were a location
<br />on Ghurton Street, which previously housed a bakery, the old REA building,
<br />or the first floor of the 01d Courthouse.
<br />Mr. Brooks stated that these figures were the bids of the Burrough
<br />Company, the system he is most familiar with. Other companies that will be
<br />- presenting bids are: IBM, Univac, Honeywell, NCR, Micro-Data and Data-
<br />. Journal. Mr. Brooks added that with the Burrough equipment there was plenty
<br />of room for expansion. Bids will be submitted early in July and a month will
<br />be needed to evaluate the bids submitted.
<br />Mr. Brooks added that the lease/purchase of the equipment was the
<br />mast feasible. All of the equipment and some of the people are budgeted
<br />for only part of 1977'78. The full cost for 1978-79 would be an additional
<br />$28,604. As the new system is developed, the hardware costs may go up, but
<br />the B1860 as proposed should get the County through 78-79 with only addi-
<br />tional costs for CRT terminals.
<br />The County Manager was instructed to attempt to find a suitable location
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