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Mr. Jolm Day <br />DecemlSer 6, 2000 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />Today, we find ourselves in the Information Age. The cable needed to activate computer equipment is <br />obviously in this same category, especialIy since it connects the equipment to an outside source of <br />inforn~ation in the same way that electrical wires connect equipment to an outside source of power. <br />Many counties of North Carolina include appropriate computer cable in facilities that they furnish with a <br />courthouse. <br /> <br />The relationship that the Judicial Branch of state govermnent has with local counties, with respect to <br />facilities, is, in effect, a landlord-tenant relationship. When a business tenant leases space in a building <br />today, it takes for granted certain features: adequate heating/air conditioning, running water, power <br />outlets, telephone outlets, etc., and, in the case of office space, computer wiring. The courts must be able <br />to take the same things for granted when they occupy a county-provided judicial facility. <br /> <br />In shmX, the county is responsible for making sure that there are available at all necessary and appropriate <br />locations in a judicial facility, outlets to which computer equipments may be connected. Those outlets <br />nmst then provide access to LAN; WAN or external phone company cables. If this requires extending <br />wires from a courthouse or other existing judicial facility to another building or judicial facility, the <br />County must do so at its expense. The State is responsible only for the wires that connect computer <br />equipment to a wall outlet. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />Basil McVey <br /> <br />Cc: <br /> <br />Honorable Marshall G. Morris <br />Honorable W. Erwin Spainhour <br />Honorable William G. Hamby, Jr. <br />Honorable Mark Speas <br />Tom Andrews <br />Tony Chung <br /> <br /> <br />