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4 <br /> 3. Timeline for- PC and network upgrades <br /> We currently have seven PC LANs: MCI (Whitted) , Child Support <br /> (ACTS) , EDC/Elections, Public Works, Budget/Personnel, Register of <br /> Deeds Optical, and E-Mail. <br /> Funded in the 1995-96 budget is a network for the Carr building <br /> which includes Planning, Environmental Health, Animal Control, <br /> Soil Conservation and Cooperative Extension and a network for EMS. <br /> We are also planning to move the original County equipment used by <br /> the Child Support network, and replaced by ACTS, to Northside for <br /> use by DSS and JOCCA. The Aging Department is expecting funding <br /> from the Friends to allow the installation of a network at the <br /> Chapel Hill Senior Center. The Sheriff's system is being moved to <br /> the new PC LAN based VISIONS software as funded in the current <br /> budget. This will give us a total of twelve networks by June <br /> 1996. <br /> We also have funding of sixty thousand dollars ($60, 000) for PC <br /> hardware and software replacements in the 1995-96 budget. This <br /> will allow a partial movement to the new County software standards <br /> (Windows and Microsoft Office) . The additional required funds to <br /> complete the move to the new software and hardware standards are <br /> in the 1996-2000 CIP. <br /> 4. Staff training <br /> PC software training funds of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) <br /> are included in the Employee Development account in Personnel 's <br /> 1995-96 budget. We also have five thousand dollars ($5, 000) in <br /> the current year CIP for DP staff training for PC type software. <br /> This formal training will greatly enhance the DP staff's ability <br /> to provide quality support to our growing base of PC users and <br /> networks. This will also allow for training in developing PC <br /> applications by existing DP staff. <br /> Based on a department by department needs assessment study, just <br /> completed, additional funds will be required for training. A <br /> majority of County employees consider themselves to be new PC <br /> users, or have limited experience with PC's, and even those users <br /> who have extensive experience with computers have had no <br /> experience with Windows. These additional training needs will be <br /> addressed in the next CIP and/or through creative amendments to <br /> the current budget. <br /> To address immediate computer training needs, Personnel has <br /> contracted with New Horizons Computer Learning Center to provide <br /> Microsoft windows-based training for 96 users (one application per <br /> user) in September. New Horizons provided a similar training <br /> package to County employees in April, 1995, and it was well <br /> received by all who attended. Personnel, Data Processing and <br /> Human Service Department representatives are currently developing <br /> a training plan (based on the needs assessment) which would <br />