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Memorandum To: Orange County Board of Commissioners From: Sam Gattis, County Manager Date, May 2, 1980 Subject: Water Billing, Hillsborough Some time ago the Board asked the Data Processing Director and me to look into the possibility of the County computing water bills for the Town of Hillsboro' gh. Keith Brooks met with Town officials on three or four occasions to discuss what we might be able to do for them. i In summary he reports: a) We can compute these bills on our equipment. b) If we do this, the Town would have to acquire a computer terminal and rent teler)hone circuits. c) Someone dust plan and program a system for this job. The County milght do this with its personnel or the Town might purchase such a system from a software vendor. d) The Coun y probably could develop this system using two months o a programmer's time. (Estimated cost; $3,500) e) A commercial vendor has offered to develop a system for the Town for $4,000. f) To perfo�'m Town' s work on an online basis, the County must commit l�'28 of its DP resources. This fraction of our annual DP budge is $6,600. Based upon an anticipated monthly billing of 2,200 units, this $6,600 could be recouped by fixing a monthly per bill rate of 25�. Keith Brooks and I feel it would be helpful if' the department could begin generating ome revenue. It would be reasonable for us to offer to develop a billing system in two ways: a) for a flat fee of $3,500 with the County owning the system or; b) an hourly rate (no guaranteed maxi- mum) with the Towy owning the finished product. If we develop the system the work will be performed by a graduate student of computer science at U. N. C. that has done some very good work for us. Funds to pay this student would com6 from money paid by the Town for developing the system. Our staff would have minimum involvement in this project.