There’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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One of the things we get asked a lot is “How much money can I really save with Laserfiche?” We have two great white papers that show the possibilities - one for financial services and one for healthcare - but, as usual, our customers’ success stories speak for themselves.

We have so many customers out there who use Laserfiche in innovative and creative ways to make their budgets stretch as far as possible. Here are some examples.

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As one of the fastest growing counties in the nation, Collin County, TX, faced the challenge of managing an increasingly-large number of records generated by a growing population.

According to Records Manager Margaret Anderson, staff in the county’s courts had difficulty finding information, due to disparate systems implemented by each department. “We also had over 15,000 reels of microfilm and 18,450 boxes of paper stored throughout the county,” she says. “Files were everywhere and we couldn’t keep up with the demand. We had to ensure that staff did not unintentionally destroy records that needed to be retained, and we wanted to implement a case management system (CMS). But we also had to manage all the paper.

“Our first step was to select and implement a new case management system for the county court system,” Anderson continues. “The records management system (RMS) we chose needed to interface with this system and provide records management control for closed and disposed case files, as well as support documents.”
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Thinking of a traditional courthouse records room might conjure up images of file cabinets overflowing with folders, but that’s not how it works in York County, PA, where staff have used technology to streamline the thousands of cases that pass through the court system each year. Full story »

The Independent School Districts of Hearne, Calvert, Franklin, Mumford and Bremond, in central Texas, are less than megalopolitan. The largest is Hearne ISD, with 1,500 students. Total enrollment of all five is about 4,000. But the state-mandated chore of retaining student records is just as difficult in districts with fewer students as in big city schools-perhaps tougher, because a smaller student body usually means a rural area with less tax revenue. And less state aid.

Less revenue, but plenty of paper records, in dusty file cabinets and boxes. However, there’s an electronic solution, as the Texans have discovered: Laserfiche document management.
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Suppose your school district was composed of 101 schools, reaching 54,000 youngsters, pre-K to 12th grade.

And of those students, 35,000, give or take X, are eligible for free or low-cost lunches under a state-and- federally-subsidized nutrition program for low-income youth.

(Suppose also, that nobody can be sure whether X represents an insignificant few kids or an army.)

You’d be up against something like what Dr. Nadine Mann faced, as assistant director of the Child Nutrition Program in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana. Hers is a head-counting job worthy of SuperMom—or Laserfiche.
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Starting with fewer than 1,000 pages earlier this year, the Web site of the Collier County Clerk of Courts recently surpassed 80,000 pages in size, making it one of the largest full-text-searchable repositories of local government public records anywhere.
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