It seems that Mayor
Shannon McShurley of Muncie, Indiana, has finally discovered some practical use
for those newfangled computers.
The mayor announced that the city fire
stations, which had previously been transporting documents to the chief’s office
via $1,500-a-pop
trips on a fire truck, would soon be investing in some low-cost computer
equipment upgrades so they could send their weekly maintenance reports
electronically.
Last year, the trucks
made 6,066 runs, costing the city $9 million.Talk about an easy line-item to cut from the budget!
"If we are literally
delivering every document from a fire station by fire truck, that is not an
efficient operation," said McShurley, a small gas lamp appearing over her
head (with any luck, someone will soon share with her the news of the light
bulb).
We’re still trying to
figure out how they moved past delivering their hand-written documents on
horseback
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