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Show t "v -'' ' , '1 7 ; i - I v ; . ' V- v ) " I 4 I . i I' 0 , ' 10 O - 0 O : K . ' 0 O a . ? s o ' r O V ; - ' ,-o ,?' j , ', " v.. " I y , " j I " ''' ' COUNTY COMPUTER By ROSELYN KIRK Training procedures are underway to prepare Pavis i County employees in the County Clerk's office to index information into a new com-puter, com-puter, which will be used this year to prepare voter regis- tration lists. j COUNTY Clerk Pod Walker said he is hopeful that voter j registration materials prepared through the com-i com-i puter will be available by I August 1. The program for the $55,000 computer is currently being prepared by Burroughs Corp.. the company com-pany that sold the machine to the county. : After the program is complete, adjustments to the program will be made under the direction of Wanda Wood, an employee of the County Clerk's Office who is supervising super-vising voter registration. LUDEEN Gibbons, chief deputy auditor, is in charge of the computer training program. She is directly responsible re-sponsible for training operators opera-tors to index the information on the voter registration and tax evaluation notices. Mrs. Gibbons, along with Barbara Phillips from the County Assessor's Office attended at-tended a training school in San Francisco earlier this year to teach them how to train personnel and get the computer operational. Mrs. Phillips is trained to program the disc for the computer. IT WILL take from six to eight months to put the property descriptions on the discs. Mr. Walker is hopeful that tax evaluation notices, to be mailed out by May 15. 1978 can be prepared on the machine. In order for this to happen, a property description for each parcel of property, the names and address of the property owners, the service number, and the assessed evaluation must be punched onto the disc. Once this information infor-mation is on the disc, only a few changes will need to be made each year in cases where property changes Ludeen Gibbons, left, chief deputy auditor, works with Fawn Jensen, who will supervise the placing of property taxes on the county computer. hands or when new property is purchased. THE COMPUTER will not be programmed this year to send out tax and water notices since the information necessary neces-sary will not be included on the disc. As part of the agreement with Burroughs, the company has agreed to provide two accounting machines for the county to use to send out water and tax notices for this year only. Mr. Walker said that three employees from the County Clerk's Office will begin to index the information for the water notices on the accounting account-ing machines on July 26. When the water notices are completed, about two more employees will join the force to prepare the tax notices. Next year both water and tax notices, in addition to tax evaluation notices will be prepared on the computer. UNDER THE direction of Mrs. Gibbons, Fawn Jensen has been placed in charge of indexing the information for the property taxes onto the disc in preparation for next year. Although the computer will be used to prepare for voter registration lists this year, the next notices to be prepared by the machine will be the tax evaluation notices which hopefully will be mailed out by May 15, 1978,, Mr. Walker said. EVERY YEAR voter information infor-mation must be updated. City elections will be held this year and county elections the following year. Voter registration regis-tration booklets must be in the hands of the registration agent two weeks before October Oc-tober 1, the first day that voters can register. Mr. Walker said for the present time all of the county bookkeeping, including payroll, will continue to be computed on the mini-computer in the accounting office. The newly purchased computer com-puter does not have the disc storage capacity necessary to be used for county bookkeeping. bookkeep-ing. AFTER another two years, Mr. Walker anticipates that the county will have to take a look at hiring new people to provide new programs to add to the capacity of the computer. com-puter. "We may need a programmer of our own at that point," he said. |