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Integrated Software for Local Government Organizations

Since our doors opened in 1976, Harris has focused on developing software solutions solely for the public sector and local governments. Our experience and expertise have enabled us to continually create products and services for local government organizations of all shapes and sizes. From municipalities and counties to utility districts and parks, we have the right software solutions to meet your organizations’ demanding needs.

Municipalities

Harris Local Government understands the unique challenges and the long list of responsibilities facing municipalities today. Municipalities are hungry to better meet their residents’ needs and to improve residents’ experience of their local governments. They need a solution to manage the laundry list of responsibilities they are tasked with. Everything from maintaining roads and sidewalks, hauling garbage, collecting hazardous household waste, and managing public buildings, to handling local finances, managing taxes and utility billing, and on top of that, they need to manage all their employee and their benefits to make sure all the jobs get done. We know that’s a lot to manage!

Counties/Parishes

Harris Local Government understands the unique challenges and the long list of responsibilities facing counties and parishes today. They are hungry to better meet their residents’ needs and improve residents’ experience of their local governments. They need a solution to manage the laundry list of responsibilities they are tasked with. Everything from maintaining roads and sidewalks, hauling garbage, collecting hazardous household waste, and managing public buildings, to handling local finances, managing taxes and utility billing, and on top of that, they need to manage all their employee and their benefits to make sure all the jobs get done. We know that’s a lot to do!

Utility Districts

Utility Districts need a reliable software solution so they can easy access complete data, respond to customer questions or issues, analyze trends, and set and defend utility rates. At Harris Local Government our focus is to provide integrated utility billing solutions that meet the needs of utility districts big or small, that’s why we provide easy to use, integrated software solutions designed to help you manage the billings and finance aspects for your utility district.

Harris Local Government’s solution, Spectrum, is a financial management and billing software solution that is designed to help you manage any or all utility districts from one centralized interface. Spectrum provides utility administrators with all the tools needed to manage their different facilities, employees, and billing needs efficiently.

Park Districts

Meeting the demanding needs of a Park District can be a complicated challenge these days. Park administrators are tasked with a lot of responsibilities. Everything from managing multiple facilities and locations, each with a different set of employees who have different roles, responsibilities, and hours, to creating effective programs and events for your community. That can be a lot to manage and it’s important to have the right software to handle those demanding needs.

At Harris Local Government we have been helping public sector park and recs departments to manage their finances, employees, and facilities for over 25 years. As part of the Harris family of business, we are focused on one vision – creating powerful software products to meet the public sector’s mission critical financial management, human resource, and other software needs. Realizing that software is not ‘one size fits all’, we offer a variety of suites tailored to maximize your park organization’s efficiency.

Disabilities / Special Needs Boards

People with disabilities, like the rest of us, want to discover their own unique abilities. All of us are different. We learn, grow and achieve at various rates; but along with those differences we have many things in common. We all have hopes & dreams, likes & dislikes and we all live in this community.

To better support their communities, many municipalities rely on their Disability and Special Needs Boards (DSN Board) to manage all aspects of their communities DSN needs. This includes managing the various programs that DNS boards support as well as all the finances, workforce, employees and benefits to maintain those programs.

Managing everything from residential programs, vocational programs, and adult activity centers to early intervention, respite, companion, and service coordination means that DSN board need robust and easy to use software to manage the various aspects of both their direct and indirect programs. Harris Local Government has worked directly with DSN Boards across South Carolina to provide tailored software solutions for their specific DSN Boards needs. Our financial management and fund accounting solutions allow DSN Board to keep careful track of their financial goals and needs while our Payroll and HR solutions allows management of employees benefits, payroll, the hiring processes for multiple locations/programs.

Councils of Government

We realize local government comes in all shapes and sizes. Whether you’re a full size municipalities or a multi-county council of government, you still have many of the same needs. Managing your communities finances and fund accounting, making sure employee’s payroll and HR needs are fulfilled, and even managing shared utilities!

At Harris Local Government we work with local governments of all shapes and sizes to provide the best software solutions based on their needs. Councils of Government have unique problems and needs out of their software. Often managing spread out employees at multiple locations and programs that can span several counties.

Our financial management and fund accounting solutions allow Councils of Government to keep careful track of their financial goals and needs, while our Payroll and HR solutions allow management of employees benefits, payroll, the hiring processes for multiple locations and programs.

Libraries

The value of a library is measured less in dollars than in the services it provides to its patrons. To provide those services in the most effective way possible, Librarians need the right library automation software to provide a comprehensive cataloguing, searching and circulating solution. Our solution ResourceMate® helps libraries streamline operations, and enable them to maximize productivity and efficiency all at a reasonable price. ResourceMate® is a sophisticated but easy-to-use solution that is remarkably adaptable, has flexible features, and helps libraries meet their needs and achieve their objectives every day.

At Harris Local Government we have been helping public sector departments to manage their finances, employees, and facilities for over 40 years. As part of the Harris family of business, we are focused on one vision – creating powerful software products to meet the public organization’s mission critical software needs. Learn more about ResourceMate® here.

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