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3. In planning and developing the facilities it will need over tl~e <br />ne~ 20 years, the county should give careful consideration to <br />the role of technology in reducing labor costs, improving <br />communications and information gathering and use, and linldng <br />related departments and agencies. For example: <br />• The use of electronic monitoring for parolees, which may allow <br />2~.2~/~.[~2- cr~ cy~~r~- <br />the county to reduce its c___ <br />• Citizens seeldng information from county offices will increasingly <br />do so by accessing the data directly through electronic means. <br />This will reduce the need for county personnel and office space <br />to serve the public. <br />While the county may initially incur higher costs to develop facilities which take advantage <br />of new technologies, in the long run, the county will more than recover its costs through <br />operational savings. <br />4. The steering committee was somewhat disappointed with the <br />limited extent to which, in planning for the future, county <br />departments and agencies have given serious thought to <br />consolidating with conesponding (and sometimes overlapping) <br />units of other local governments. We may never see the day <br />when there will be wholesale consolidation of city and county <br />governments, and indeed, that may not even be desirable. But <br />in this age of limited resources, the committee believes that all <br />local governments should seek every opportunity to consolidate <br />and coordinate similar activities. The example of the law <br />PAGE 3 <br />ksj/cd/Facilities.Int 03/10/95 <br />