'Finished' Court IT Project to Cost State 100s of Millions for Years
'Finished' Court IT Project to Cost State 100s of Millions for Years
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - The current claim from court bureaucrats that a big IT project is "finished" runs counter to budget documents showing plans to spend $242,000 on the project every single day from now through mid-2014.
A memo entitled "Fact Check" was sent by the Administrative Office of the Courts to reporters and legislators earlier this month, saying the IT system called the Court Case Management System is completed.
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Those budget numbers show the administrators expect to spend $91 million on the IT system in fiscal year 2011-2012. The number rises slightly the following fiscal year to $92 million and tapers off a bit to $87 million in 2013-2014.
An accountant broke those numbers down to daily averages for each budget year. The overall daily average comes to $242,500 per day, including weekends and holidays, from now until June 2014.
"It doesn't look like they intend to let go of the monster they've created," said Karen Covel, a partner with Lauer Georgatos & Covel in San Diego. Covel provides accounting services to Courthouse News Service and was asked to prepare an analysis of budget figures for the IT project, called the Court Case Management System.
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