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project will be funded out of resources that will not affect any of the ongoing capital or operating budgets. Financing The methods of financing could be through the use of lease/purchasing from Hewlett Packard at 7% or 7.5% depending on how we set it up, or a combination of cash and lease/purchasing. Another way, and the one that is least costly and most effective is the transferring of reserves from Water, Sewer, Trust. Fund 92, and the use of Construction M & O Funds from Bank of America, set up from the Police Building Project. Yet another way would be to use the General Fund reserves; however, this seems to be the least desirable because of already low reserve in the General Fund. Again in summary, the use of transfers from the above mentioned funds will be a way to finance the project without any impact to any already funded capital or operating budgets. BACKGROUND: City Hall The City of Pleasanton, along with other bay area cities, joined a computer service bureau in the early 1980's called Gemunis. The company, Gemunis, later became known as NCS, which it presently is today. This direction was an excellent idea during the early eighties, but as computer hardware became more attractive in both price as well as performance, several of the cities began leaving the service bureau environment. In 1984 the City of Pleasanton began its migration away from the service bureau environment by purchasing the HP3000. The original application was that of word processing so as to centralize the effort of word processing city wide. The intent was to begin with word processing and then go into the other areas of City data processing. In fiscal year 1986/87 the decision was made to begin to develop a data base system for developer based applications such as planning, building and engineering processing of permits and projects. During the last fiscal year a consultant was hired to evaluate the computer equipment and software resources to accomplish their task. In the process the HP3000 was upgraded to a Series 58, and software from PPS of Florida was purchased. In this fiscal year the service bureau, NCS, notified the City that it would be going out of business in January 1988. This has since been tempered, but the bottom line is the service level for NCS will certainly not grow, and could possibly reduce in scope. In fact, some staff members are now saying the service quality from NCS is falling off from what it has been. SR87:471