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Show iavSs (Sompiiflttsir UmU: Trjo Veairs By ROSELYN KIRK The $55,000 computer, recently purchased by Davis County, will only have the capacity to handle property tax information for the next two years, according to County Clerk Rodney Walker. REPRESENTATIVES from Davis County Planning Department and the Davis County Housing Authority consulted with county commissioners com-missioners to determine how soon the equipment would be available for the use of the planning department, but learned the computer could not handle their data yet. Mr. Walker said that the keyboard is presently being used to feed in information on property descriptions for each parcel of property, along with other information, so that tax evaluation notices can be mailed out by May 15, 1978. HE SAID the county may have to hire a service bureau to punch the information necessary for the property tax notices onto the computer disc. Until that information is stored on the disc, no other expansion of the computer is planned. As the system expands, Mr. Walker said that plans are to have terminals in seven departments so that material stored in the computer will be accessible to each department. depart-ment. Additional terminals will cost around $4,500 each, he estimated. THE planning office said that department would be anxious to use information, that will be stored on the discs, for the tax evaluation notices. This would allow them to upgrade the planning maps and the geographic base file. Chris Schaefer, planning expert, is attempting attempt-ing to organize planning information in-formation into block groups to provide instant information to the planning office at the touch of a button. The planning office said this type of information will also be helpful to the Davis County Housing Authority. Some federal funding may be available to organize the material, which can be fed into the computer at a later date. KYM Anderson, director of the Davis County Housing Authority, said that as the county continues to develop, the capability of using the computer for instant information infor-mation on county housing will become even more important. Mr. Schaefer said the information, in-formation, when available on the computer, will allow the planning department to, not only analyze one city in comparison com-parison to another, but will allow this same comparison between block groups. Such information would allow the computer to read maps, he said. MR. Schaefer said the DIME file will be complete by January. Until the county computer capacity is expanded, expand-ed, this information can be analyzed by renting computer time in Salt Lake City. Mr. Walker said that in addition ad-dition to getting the tax information in-formation on the computer disc, that the county is considering con-sidering a new serial num- (Cantfcntf Myta2) Dauis Computer Tweeds Memory (Continued from front page) bering system for properly. It will take about three to four months to include this information infor-mation on the disc and currently space to allow that change is being reserved. MR. WALKER said presently the computer does not have the capacity to store more information. In order to make that possible, the county will need to buy an additional disc pack, which would double the storing capacity of the present computer. com-puter. Thayne Corbridge, county assessor, said that tax evaluation information will be subject to change in 1979 when each parcel has to be reappraised. Reappraisal is required every five years. THE county plans to advertise adver-tise for a computer programmer to correlate the computer system, Commissioner Commis-sioner Glen Flint said. |