Posts Tagged ‘permitting’

Laserfiche Announces Central District Health Department as Run Smarter Award Winner

CDHD uses Laserfiche to streamline permitting and give citizens self-service access to records

January 28th, 2011

LONG BEACH, CA (Laserfiche)—January 28, 2011—Laserfiche has announced the winners of its annual Run Smarter Awards program, including Boise, Idaho’s Central District Health Department (CDHD). Each year, Laserfiche honors organizations that succeed in promoting organizational agility through innovative use of Laserfiche enterprise content management (ECM). Full story »

Healthier Permitting Process for Idaho’s Central District Health Department

Four-county health department enlists ECM to improve information accessibility and save hundreds of hours in staff time

January 6th, 2011

CDHDManaging past and current septic permit applications for areas totaling just over 425,000 residents without an enterprise content management (ECM) solution meant a lot of paper trails and time-consuming manual processes for Idaho’s Central District Health Department (CDHD). Full story »

WebLink Wonderland

Mountains are for snow, not paper, in Vail, CO

December 9th, 2009 by Hobey Echlin Hobey Echlin is a Laserfiche staff member

VailcoloradotownlogoWhen you think of Vail, you think of a winter wonderland of world-class skiing by day and cozy, snowed-in evenings in front of a roaring fire by night. So do the wealth of seasonal visitors and second homeowners that make their way to the outdoor recreation destination in numbers that can quadruple the town’s modest population of 5,000 residents. “Vail’s a small town with a huge national and international visitor population which can grow to over 20,000 at times,” says Michael Wolfe, the Town’s records manager.
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Building Out the IT Infrastructure with ECM

CCCSD leverages Laserfiche to improve information access and ensure employee efficiency

November 11th, 2009 by Meghann Wooster Meghann Wooster is a Laserfiche Luminary

cccsdThere’s little in life that’s more elemental than water. And yet, in most developed countries, it’s easy to take access to safe water and sanitation for granted.

Prior to the creation of the Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (CCCSD) in 1946, however, Contra Costa County—located east of San Francisco, CA—was in crisis. A post-war building boom had brought an influx of new residents, most of them relying on septic systems that didn’t take well to the area’s heavy adobe clay soil. With septic tanks overflowing and waterborne diseases such as typhoid becoming a potential threat, health authorities considered the polluted conditions in the county to be among the worst in California.

As a result, the CCCSD was formed as a special district, a sewer system and treatment plants were put in place, and the public received much-needed access to safe water and sanitation.
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Cleaning Up the Septic System Permit Process

The West Piedmont, VA, Health District goes high-tech when it comes to digging below ground

August 12th, 2009

va-dept-of-healthThe West Piedmont, VA, Health District is going high-tech when it comes to digging below ground. By using Laserfiche to enable instant access to digging permits, this branch of the Virginia State Health Department has expedited the process of digging wells and septic systems for new real estate development in this scenic slice of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Draining the Paper Pool

Rice Creek Watershed District uses Laserfiche to stem the flow of paper

April 15th, 2009

rice-creek-logoMinnesota. It’s not called the land of ten thousand lakes for nothing. This aqueous state needs a total of 45 watershed districts to manage water quality and to regulate any land development projects near bodies of water.

In Minnesota, watershed districts are local, special-purpose units of government that work to solve and prevent water-related problems. The boundaries of each district follow those of a natural watershed and consist of land in which all water flows to one outlet, and districts are usually named after that watershed. They range in size from the Carnelian-Marine District with 43 square miles, to the Red Lake Watershed District with 5990 square miles.
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