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Marshall County approves switch to new county financial software; board authorizes contract
Summary
The treasurer and auditor presented a conversion to Lao financial software to replace a legacy DOS-based system; commissioners approved the agreement and directed a signature, with initial costs of roughly $133,000 this year and annual maintenance near $62,700.
Marshall County commissioners voted March 2 to approve a contract to replace the county’s aging financial system and to begin converting county treasurer and auditor records to a Windows-based vendor described in the meeting as Lao.
Treasurer Wendy Tapia and County Auditor Angie Birchmeire told the board the county currently operates on a DOS‑based system last updated in 2010 and has experienced outages and duplicated work that drive manual reconciliation.…
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