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Show ! 1 i - W ... s. City Clerk Susan Sessions communicates with new office assistant. City Records Computerized As a step toward greater efficiency, effi-ciency, the city is transferring many of its records to Salt Lake. "How's that," you say. "Run that by one more time." It's really not as strange as it sounds. been hard at work transferring information off the the soon-to-be-obsolete ledger cards into the computer memory. The tedious task of typing 0nce this process is complete, names, addresses and previous her job become a lot balances on monthly water, sewer easler- The billing procedure and garbage bills is being unload- wmcn up until now 'has taken ed onto a computer in Salt Lake. about two weeks, should take The computer will also keep a little more than an hour, running tally on the city's ac- Jhe hardware was purchased counts payable and accounts re- from Computer Systems Dynam- ceivable, and on the latest budget ks in Sak Uke- cost: $3,900. figures. jj,e city also pays a montly fee The computer is connected via based on the amount of computer phone lines to two new pieces of time used. hardware in city hall: a video CRT Qne troublesome tion re. (cathode ray tube) terminal, and a mains the dty derk Prlnter- going to do with all that extra City Clerk Susan Sessions has time? |