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MIZUNO: Why is that? Some of the suggestions that I <br /> had was . . . I had mixed emotions about creating a new <br /> department. <br /> GREENWELL: Leave it where it is. <br /> MIZUNO: I . . .you could leave it where it is or you <br /> could move it under the mayor ' s office, which creates then <br /> another problem because administratively he' s got one more <br /> thing to worry about . You can leave it where it is under <br /> Finance but create this data processing review committee <br /> such as the standardization committee. That might be a <br /> possible solution. You know, write it into the Charter that <br /> directions shall be set by this data processing steering <br /> committee made up of. . . <br /> BETHEA: Is there a. . .on that particular issue, is <br /> there a feeling among the committee that that might be a <br /> pretty good approach? If there are no objections to this , <br /> Miss Jacobs , could you, when we get a (inaudible) Council , <br /> I ' d like to get that particular concept assigned and <br /> something coming back on it. Because it would probably . . . I <br /> think that ' s something we can probably all agree upon. The <br /> need for that as Mr. Greenwell points out could be some <br /> methodology for handling that . <br /> I 've got one more. . . <br /> L'ORANGE: (Inaudible. ) I 'm not sure we want to put <br /> the Council on that yet , from the standpoint that lots of <br /> management schemes as to how we want to work that. I think <br /> we have to have a little more agreement on how the thing is <br /> going to work before we can put ' em on language, because if <br /> you look at the state goverment , the state government is a <br /> bloody mess with their computer programs. They have all <br /> kinds of things that don' t match and. . . I think we don' t need <br /> that . <br /> And there' s a tendency for salesmen to sell equipment <br /> to departments and make the pitch to the department that <br /> this is the best , and the department buys it because this is <br /> really what we need, and then you have a whole government <br /> set up with computers that are not compatible and they don' t <br /> service. . . so I think we have to get a conceptually, what <br /> we're thinking of. And then I agree with you, then we ask <br /> the person to create the (inaudible) . <br /> BETHEA: Well , I was really saying. . . in his paper he <br /> had suggested like a full line department . And then Mr. <br /> Greenwell had pointed out that there ' s already a division in <br /> existence in the Finance Department . And then I think the <br /> suggestion had been from Mr. Mizuno that perhaps at least <br /> the Charter could set out that this committee would form the <br /> guidelines for the selection of this type of equipment. And <br /> 274 <br />