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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: March 17, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 4-13 <br />SUBJECT: Purchase of GIS Server and Work Stations <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager /IS /Land Records PUBLIC HEARING: (YIN) .t <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />3/6/98 Land Records Director Memo <br />3/9/98 IT Committee Chair Memo <br />Capital Project Ordinance <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rod Visser, ext 2300; Roscoe Reeve, ext 2500; <br />Dick Taylor, ext 2276 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill <br />968 -4501 <br />Durham <br />688 -7331 <br />Mebane <br />227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider appropriating funds for the purchase of replacement geographic <br />information system (GIS) equipment for the Land Records Department. <br />BACKGROUND: One element of the Strategic Automation Plan developed in Spring 1997 <br />involved the replacement of older GIS equipment in the Land Records Office. Purchase of a server <br />and two PC workstations will permit faster and more accurate processing of parcel records and <br />allow County staff and citizens to take wider advantage of the benefits of the County's GIS. <br />At their February 24, 1998 meeting, the Information Technology Committee recommended that the <br />County proceed with the remaining phases of the short term IT Plan implementation, which <br />includes $48,000 for a new GIS server, two NT workstations, and associated installation. Staff are <br />seeking the Board's approval of the GIS equipment only at this time - a request for funds for the <br />remainder of the short term IT plan implementation will be presented at a subsequent Board meeting <br />in April. Funds for the outright purchase of this equipment are available in the Information <br />Technology reserve account set aside by the Board in the 1997 -98 budget. The revised Information <br />Technology Capital Project Ordinance would transfer $48,000 from this reserve and authorize the <br />purchase of the requested GIS equipment. <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board approve purchase of the <br />requested GIS equipment and adopt the attached capital project ordinance. <br />