More power.Maybe the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Assessor's Office needs some more computing computing - computer power. The office can't accommodate properties with more than nine digits worth of dollar value. "We're still using the same mainframe we've had," said Rex Hartline Hart·line , Haldan Keffer 1903-1983. American biophysicist. He shared a 1967 Nobel Prize for research on the physiological and electrical activities of the optic nerve and the eye. , an official at the IT department of the county assessor's office. The county's highest valued property, the J. Paul Getty Jean Paul Getty (December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company. Biography Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, into a family already in the petroleum business, he was one of the first people in the world with a Center, has to be divided into numerous pieces that are cross-referenced so that the city can keep track of its $2.2 billion assessed value. Updating the computer system would be a monumental mon·u·men·tal adj. 1. Of, resembling, or serving as a monument. 2. Impressively large, sturdy, and enduring. 3. task that would affect not just the assessor, but the tax collector, Hartline said. The mainframe is part of a network that allows the county to determine how much should be paid and what already has been collected in taxes. A new system capable of handling properties with assessed values greater than nine digits would require new equipment to keep track of property taxes as well. Additionally, transferring the county's aggregate $781 billion roll value would be time consuming and new equipment would be very costly, Hartline said. |
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