Plus I was just commenting on the environemntal issue already raised by throwing out the Green word and working off of Thinkliberty's post. Dont be so fucking quick to jump all over people there Ian!

Of course the possibility exists that their system is so outdated that there may not be a way to compile electronically across departments. That was a fact in several similiar sized towns/cities in upstate NY where I did some IT work after Y2K. The payrools were done and submitted seperatly by each department and other than maybe a list of names little was actually in a consolidated database. They also had an issue with exporting a file in a basic format that could be useful. Everything that came out was a left registered fixed field file in ASCII. Anyone who knows what that means knows that there a lot of useless characters say zeros or * to act as place fillers. An electronic file was doable but the value in any other system was minimal. Almost as much needed to be done to stroke the file for import as would be needed to just key it in. I would not be surprised if Keene was that bad of also.

There's no shortage of paper. When you use it, they just plant more trees. No problem.

I'm just saying that the city claims one thing, and does another.

But then, I guess they'll do anything to kick sand in the eyes of anyone trying to get some accountability, or transparency. Why, we impertinent serfs should just shut up and obey. Who are we to question them?

Why not just take the paper data and find a volunteer or better yet hire a person who could use the money to key it in. 40 pages is nothing!

But overall it did seem like an interesting case.