Description
A cooperative effort in sharing programming and analyst resources between five utilities and municipalities in Oregon is paying dividends for the agencies. The users in the partnership have neither a software house nor an in-house professional staff to handle their data processing needs. Instead, an entity called Group-4 Utility and Municipal Data Systems was formed to service those needs. In the 1970s, a software vendor originally developed and installed the custom programs in nine government agencies. The software was for utility billing, and it was installed satisfactorily–but the software vendor went out of business. Administrators of several of the utilities got together to create a programming organization to fulfill their needs. The formation of Group-4 was established and an intergovernmental agreement was signed. Some of the employees of the software vendor were hired to work exclusively for the new organization. Soon, other utilities joined Group-4. This paper describes how the group functions, how its services are billed, and the results of the cooperative effort.
Product Details
- Published:
- 01/01/1992
- ISBN(s):
- 0898676347
- Number of Pages:
- 4
- File Size:
- 1 file
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus
