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February 13, 1995 MEMO To: Randy Curtis ~yf'r~t~ From: Mike Murray Uy ~ Re: Marion Counry Facilities Steering Committee Comments on Final Draft--Recommendations `r ~: ; ~ ~ ~, to Commissioners First let me say that I have absolute confidence that you and "the chairman" will draft an excellent document for submission to the Commissioners. My primary purpose in offering these general remarks is to let you know that I have at least thought about the process of assembling a final document. Having now sifted through reams of information and data, I suspect that our committee's conclusions will surprise no one, including ourselves. The top facilities priorities both currently and well into the future appear to be law enforcement related. With the article in the Sunday (February 12) Statesman-lournal on the status of our juvenile ,1ustice system my own thoughts are reinforced in terms of the priority youth should ~'eceive in our planning process. Because juvenile justice/corrections is the precursor to adult conections problems, juvenile gets my top priority. I think it is important that we cite the discussion our committee had regarding the current and growing impact we expect technology to have on the kinds of facilities and communications systems we have in county government. Though it is virtually impossible to project twenty years into the future regarding the technology we will have then and how it may impact our overall view of good and efficient government, we know absolutely that it will (i.e., the example cited to us relative to case management for parolees and probationers--electronic tracking devices.) With regard to general administrative services to the public, I expect fewer in person transactions and more electronic data transfer transactions with far less paper shuffling and more disk storage_ This should reduce considerably the space requirements for both employees and documentation. The idea of every county employee having an allocated individual office space in a multi-story building will be an anachronism. But I realize we are not there yet and probably cannot develop our twenty year plans around the "home o~ce" computer-based county employee. (You know, if it weren't for inertia, I would say, in an ideal world we should be taking a serious look at totally re-structuring local government, eliminating the multiple overlaps of jurisdictions as an appropriate and necessary prologue to any kind of serious facilities review and planning. But that's not our assignment. I suppose Tri-Agency is an initial step in that direction, and therefore deserves strong support for implementation.) Judicial proceedings will evolve in ways that will hopefully and presumably require less time, travel and facility space. I am personally hopeful that increased use of non judicial private dispute resolution techniques and methodologies will be employed for domestic