TITLE
Title
HOLD PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF E-FILING NOTICE
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SPONSOR
Sponsor
Robin Keller
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BACKGROUND
Background
The General Assembly of North Carolina through the approval of Session Law Bill 181, has selected Guilford County as a pilot program that authorizes both certain local governments and Guilford County to publish all required legal notices electronically via the county-maintained website for a fee. The Guilford County Legal Notices Project seeks to implement the first of a three phase process toward the utilization of the Guilford County website in lieu of media publication. Phase one of the project is expected to go live in January of 2018, which will include:
1. Manual internal email process
2. Form to upload notices to website
3. Webpage to display notices
4. Notices sorted by category and searchable by key criteria
5. Sections for active and archived notices
6. Ability and access to generate affidavits
7. Ability and access to attach supporting documentation
8. Ability and access to print notices and attachments
Additional implementation Phases, which include the addition of local municipal and external legal notices may require the addition of part-time staffing support. Any future costs associated with Phase 2 and 3 are anticipated to be offset by expected revenue associated with external advertiser. Financial impact of phase 2 and 3 will be reviewed upon the implementation of each phase of the project.
Guilford County expended roughly $70,970 during the current fiscal year, upon implementation of Phase 1 theses costs will be drastically reduced annually. Upon implementation of the proposed ordinance, the County will still retain the option to publish in newspapers when prudent and in the best interest of communicating information to the public. The functionality of utilizing online publication in a single portal, which is both searchable and archiveable, is expected to bring added ease of access to information to...
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