{"id":1256,"date":"2016-07-05T16:34:34","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2016-07-05T16:34:34","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T16:34:34","slug":"loudouns-it-system-costs-mounting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"Loudoun&#8217;s IT system costs mounting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of bringing Loudoun County\u2019s computerized financial management systems into the 21st century continues to mount.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-reassigns-troubled-financial-system-upgrade-to-new-company\/2016\/07\/01\/d99dac06-3fb3-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously June 23 to reassign the trouble-plagued project<\/a> from AST, the company that had been contracted to do the upgrade, to Oracle America. The board also pumped almost $4.8 million into the project, pushing the total cost above $46 million \u2014 nearly twice the initial budget of $25 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-reassigns-troubled-financial-system-upgrade-to-new-company\/2016\/07\/01\/d99dac06-3fb3-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em>, 7\/3\/16<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of bringing Loudoun County\u2019s computerized financial management systems into the 21st century continues to mount. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously June 23 to reassign the trouble-plagued project from AST, the company that had been contracted to do the upgrade, to Oracle America. The board also pumped almost $4.8 million into the project, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1256\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Loudoun&#8217;s IT system costs mounting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,3,19],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-loudoun-county","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}