THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM ¢ U N C

MEMORANDUM JUL 7 ~ 1985

TO: B.R. Kirk June 10, 1986
City Administrator

FROM: - W. Brown
Director of Community Planning

SUBJECT: Upgrading Computer Equipment

RECOMMENDATION: That a sum of up to $1,200 be taken from
oo, the Computer Reserve Account for upgrading
computer equipment in the Planning

Department.

Pi ante Pee ate thee SOR ei, tne ne Re eee eee cnet ee

COMMENTS:

This memorandum is being submitted to request
authorisation to use monies from the City's Computer:Reserve
Account to upgrade the Micro Computer in the Planning
Department.

The changes being proposed are to Increase storage
capacity of the machine and improve the keyboard by adding
Separate keys for mathematical entries,

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These improvements are baing requested at this time to
permit the Planning Department to load the complete tax roi |
onto the computer at once and to better perform numerical
entries.

Benefit of the increased storage is that property searches
that can not be carried out now could be done. For example, if
@ request is made for the number and location of vacant
properties having certain characteristics, it could be done
where now it can not. This feature is Particularly useful for
responding to requests for real estate information and tor
planning studies to identify development potential. .

The keyboard baing requested separates numbers from the
cursor movement keys, presentiy they share the same keys. The
keyboard being requested permits numbers to be entered and
placed in a spreadsheet faster with a less compticated
procedure, This latter point should help to eliminate some
data entry errors,