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and although the information is not essential enough to have it duplicated

in our Hall, it was a convenience.

The only major problem that has come out of the whole change over has
occurred this year. While we should have had an Assessment Roll with
Assessment Totals delivered to us on December 31st, we have only just
received confirmed Roll totals in a letter from the Authority dated
March 29th, 1976. We have, therefore, not been able to put anything into
our computer with regard to the 1976 Roll and, in fact, the input information
is now just being processed. I can only hope that everything goes
smoothly in the conversion with our computer as we do not have a great
deal of time between now and tax billing time. Once the problems of
central data processing in Victoria are ironed out I think that their
records will tie into ours with a minimum of duplication, There is
duplication of data processing now to the extent that we require the
same basic property data in our computer that is on file in Victoria. A
system has been devised for preparing the input for our machine by way
of a tape and this will save manual labour, however, if we want to
remain current with changes in property ownership, these changes will
have to be manually entered into the machine. This is work that was

carried out before, by us and at our expense, however, under the present

system, it is being duplicated in Victoria.

With regard to cost, it would appear that the operation is not costing
us any more than it did in the past. The past cost in terms of Mills is
as follows:

1972 ~ 1.2 Mills;1973 - 1.47 Mills;

1974 - 1.64 Mills; 1975 - 1.17 Mills;

1976 - 1.255 Millis

The Assessment Authority took over in July of 1974 and part of the high
cost in that year is partially due to the start-up costs. I do not have
any details on the Assessment Authority Budget to determine the amount

of contribution by the Provincial Government to the Authority and therefore
it is difficult to say whether the low Mill rate currently enjoyed is a

result of efficient operation or greater contribution by the Provincial