The town of Cornelius, NC has launched a new program designed to cut down on paper use in the town’s government facilities, and the linchpin of this program is none other than Apple’s tablet, the iPad. According to the local Herald Weekly paper, the town passed out iPad 2s to commissioners at a recent board meeting, and plans to use the devices for sharing agenda packets, budget information, and everything else you need to run a small town, without printing any of it out.
The whole plan seems surprisingly well thought out — the town actually ran a trial of the program with just three iPads, and the paperless agenda plan has been set up for quite a while now. It was relatively cheap, too — the town has only spent $5200 on the iPads (not counting some document sharing software previously purchased), and fully expects to make that money right back up in saved time and paper costs.
Pretty impressive move, and of course this means the town commissioners also get to use Apple’s magical and revolutionary device during meetings (though they should probably keep the Angry Birds off of government property, just in case). We’ve seen iPads used in a professional setting before to great effect, and here’s another situation where Apple’s product is not only better for a few reasons, but actually cheaper as well.
[via Gigaom — but the town is not in Colorado, it’s in North Carolina]
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