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<br /> In 1977 Orange County was basically a manual county with no
<br /> in-house computer equipment or expertise. The county was
<br /> spending over ninty thousand dollars ($90,000) with an
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<br /> outside service bureau for outdated, and in most cases, very '
<br /> untimely computer services. Orange county was growing very
<br /> rapidly and its workforce was being expanced by the addition
<br /> of new county functions. Entire new departments such as v
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<br /> Planning, Public Health, and Recreation were being added.
<br /> The top officials of the county decided to add its own
<br /> computer staff and equipment to help manage and control
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<br /> these expanded functions This decision was supported by an •-‘;,
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<br /> outside agency, doing a feasibility study on the problem.
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<br /> that recommended the 'county develop its own in-house
<br /> computer department. The priorities of this department
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<br /> would be to help gather, maintain, and disseminate the - c
<br /> information being generated by the rapid growth in local • 1
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<br /> The county funded a Data Processing department in the
<br /> 1977-78 budget. A data processing manager was hired whose 1.,.,,":,,,,ilt:
<br /> primary initial function was to acquire equipment and staff
<br /> to meet a five year data processing development plan. This
<br /> plan was developed by a steering committee which consisted '
<br /> of the County Manager and several top department heads. The
<br /> decision was made to purchase the basic application software •
<br /> so as to get the top priority systems up and going in a very
<br /> short time frame. The first equipment was installed in
<br /> February of 1978 with the functions of Finance, Tax, Board
<br /> of Elections, and Register of Deeds in operation by July of • . '?:
<br /> that year. All the objectives of the five year plan were 1- ,
<br /> completed in thirty months by developing in-house .4
<br /> application software or by purchasing outside existing
<br /> software packages. The outstanding cooperation between the
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<br /> data processing staff and other departments in the county
<br /> resulted in excellent computerized systems being installed.
<br /> Each department was totally involved in either developing or ' 1
<br /> purchasing the application software which was to be fi,,,,...,...-;
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<br /> installed for their use. ,
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