Cornelius [North Carolina] “Town Manager Anthony Roberts estimates the town is saving the cost of new iPads with the money it no longer spends printing meeting agenda packets and the time that saves Town Clerk Lori Pearson,” Frank DeLoache reports for The Huntersvillle Herald.
“Mayor Jeff Tarte and the town’s five commissioners displayed their new town-issued iPad 2s at the town board meeting Monday, June 20,” DeLoache reports. “Tarte asked those in the audience to be patient as commissioners get used to calling up every part of the agenda – including budget worksheets, zoning maps and PowerPoint attachments – on their new computers.”
“‘It’s just a no brainer,’ the town manager said late last week, as he ran through the numbers. ‘We used to print all those agenda packets and people threw them in the recycling bin after the meeting. The beauty of this system is you have everything online. It’s there forever and a day, and the general public sees everything,'” DeLoache reports. “And the town saves money, he said.”
“Roberts said he expects the iPad 2 will gradually take the place of all the town’s laptops, which cost $700 to $800. Town officials are even considering placing the iPads in town police cars, though Roberts said they’re not sure if they could replace the larger computer stations,” DeLoache reports. “‘People ask why? To save money. They’re cheaper. That’s why,’ he said.”
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